ISSN 1546-9212

Slayage 5.1 [17], June 2005

Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

David Fritts (Henderson Community College)

• “Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beowulf”
  

Janet K. Halfyard (Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England)

• “Singing Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel“
  

Ewan Kirkland (University of Sussex)

• “The Caucasian Persuasion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer“
  

Jeffrey Middents (American University)

• “A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)”
  

Richard S. Albright (Harrisburg Community College)

• “‘[B]reakaway pop hit or . . . book number?’: ‘Once More, with Feeling’ and Genre”

Slayage 5.2 [18], September 2005

Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

Lorna Jowett (University College, Northampton)

• “The Summers’ House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer“
  

Scott McLaren (York University)

• “The Evolution of Joss Whedon’s Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the Soul”
  

Jeffrey Bussolini (University of Staten Island)

• “Los Alamos is the Hellmouth”
  

Jes Battis (Simon Fraser University)

• “Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyra”
  • (This essay is chapter five of Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel © 2005 Jes Battis, and is made available here by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640)

Ewan Kirkland (Buckingham Childterns University College)

• “A Conference Report on ‘Bring Your Own Subtext’: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon”

Slayage 5.3 [19], February 2006

Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

Anthony Bradney (University of Sheffield)

• “The Politics and Ethics of Researching the Buffyverse”
  

Rod Romesburg (Ohio State University)

• “Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New Frontier”
  

David Kociemba (Emerson College)

• “‘Over-identify much?’: Passion, ‘Passion,’ and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in Buffy the Vampire Slayer“
  

Kelly Kromer (Louisiana State University)

• “Silence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading of ‘Hush'”
  

Matthew Pateman (University of Hull)

• “‘Restless’ Readings – Involution, Aesthetics, and Buffy”
  • (From The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (c) 2006 Matthew Pateman by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com)

Slayage 5.4 [20], May 2006

Special Issue, Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style

Guest Edited by Michael Adams (Indiana University)

Michael Adams, Guest Editor (Indiana University) 

• Introduction to Special Issue: “Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Cynthea Masson (Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, British Columbia)

• “‘Is that just a comforting way of not answering the question?’: Willow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University, Middlesex, UK)

• “‘I am the law’ ‘I am the magics’: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Jesse Saba Kirchner (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• “And in Some Language That’s English? Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer Generation”

Mark Peters (Empire State College)

• “Getting a Wiggins and Being a Bitca: How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message Boards”

Katrina Blasingame (Columbia College, Chicago)

• “‘I can’t believe I’m saying it twice in the same century . . . but “duh . .  .”‘ The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of Fanfiction”

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