Friday, July 13, 2012

Essay of the Day, 7/13/12: "’I wrote my thesis on you’: Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult"



“’I wrote my thesis on you’: Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Numbers 13-14 (2004).


This was a keynote I gave at the first Slayage Conference in Nashville. It was a kind of apologia written in part as a response to a piece (co-authored by the soon-to-be famous Steven Schneider) trashing Rhonda Wilcox and I that appeared in Jim South's Buffy and philosophy collection.


Read it here.

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