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Click essay titles for a downloadable PDF.

Slayage 2.1 [5], May 2002
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

Sherryl Vint (University of Alberta)
  • "'Killing us Softly'? A Feminist Search for the 'Real' Buffy"

Victoria Spah (The Buffy DataBase)
  • "Ain't Love Grand?: Spike & Courtly Love"

Philip Mikosz and Dana Och (University of Pittsburgh)
  • "Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . ."

Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)
  • "'Every Night I Save You': Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption"

Zoë-Jane Playdon (University of London)
  • “'The Outsiders' Society': Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Slayage 2.2 [6], September 2002
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

J. Gordon Melton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • "Images from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books 1998-2002"

Reid B. Locklin (Boston University)
  • "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Re-Visioning Family and the Common Good"

Frances Early (Mount St. Vincent University)
  • "Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior"

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University)
  • "'Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers': Joss Whedon's Commentaries on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs"

Slayage 2.3 [7], December 2002
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

Derik A. Badman 
  • "Academic Buffy Bibliography"

Arwen Spicer (University of Oregon)
  • "'Love's Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It': Spike's Hybridized Gender"

Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)
  • "T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's 'Restless'"

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University)
  • "'A Religion in Narrative': Joss Whedon and Television Creativity"

Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR)
  • "Brainwashing the Working Class: Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr. Occult to Buffy"

Slayage 2.4 [8], March 2003
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

Camille Bacon-Smith 
  • "The Color of the Dark"

Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University)
  • "Playing Buffy: Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Claire Fossey
  • "'Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer': Spike and the Underground Man"

Vivien Burr (University of Huddersfield)
  • "Buffy and the BBC: Moral Questions and How to Avoid Them"

Jes Battis (Simon Fraser University)
  • "'She’s Not All Grown Yet': Willow As Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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