Reading Joss Whedon

Contributors

441 Contributors S T A C E Y A B B O T T is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton University. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007) and Angel (2009), the editor of Reading “Angel”: The TV Spin-off with a Soul (2005) and The Cult TV Book (2010), and the author or coeditor of many other works. With Lorna Jowett, she is the coauthor of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013). She is Series Editor of the I. B. Tauris Investigating Cult TV series. She is a member of the editorial board of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. R I C H A R D S . A L B R I G H T is an Associate Professor of English at Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches composition and literature . After majoring in English literature at Lehigh University, he pursued a career as a systems analyst before deciding that his dream of an academic career was not to be denied. He eventually returned to Lehigh a generation after his previous sojourn there, earning his PhD in 2002. Besides his work on Buffy, he has published Writing the Past, Writing the Future: Time and Narrative in Gothic and Sensation Fiction (2009) and journal articles on nineteenth-century British literature. A L Y S O N R . B U C K M A N is a Professor in the Humanities and Religious Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches courses in film, popular culture, American Studies, and multiculturalism. Her publications include work on Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, Marge Piercy, The Gilmore Girls, Firefly , and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. She is actively involved with the Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association as well as the Whedon Studies Association. J E F F R E Y B U S S O L I N I is Associate Professor at the City University of New York and Codirector of the Avenue B Multi-Studies Center. He has published on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Serenity. He also researches human/animal interactions (especially feline/human) and the ethnography of national security institutions. He has been a visiting scholar at Macquarie University (Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Centre for Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour) and the University of New South Wales (School of the Humanities). 442 ✴ Contributors T A N Y A R . C O C H R A N , PhD, is Associate Professor of English at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her interests include fandom and gender studies as well as the intersection of faith and learning. An editorial board member for Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association and its undergraduate partner, Watcher Junior, she is also the president of the Whedon Studies Association (2012–14) and one of its cofounders. Her publications include Investigating “Firefly” and “Serenity”: Science Fiction on the Frontier (2008), coedited with Rhonda V. Wilcox; essays in multiple anthologies; and articles for journals such as Transformative Works and Cultures. G R E G O R Y E R I C K S O N is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of New York University where he teaches courses on religion, literature, music, and popular culture. He is the author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature (2007) and the coauthor of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred (2008). E N S L E Y F . G U F F E Y ’ S publications include “‘We Just Declared War’: Buffy as General” in Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies. A May 2012 summa cum laude BA in history (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), he is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University. J A N E T K . H A L F Y A R D is a musicologist and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Her publications include Danny Elfman’s “Batman ”: A Film Score Guide (2004), the edited collection of essays Music, Sound, and Silence in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (2009), and the edited collection Music and Fantasy Cinema (2012) as part of the Equinox Genre, Music, and Sound series. She has published many other articles on film and television music. L I N D A J . J E N C S O N teaches anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is the author of several essays on Whedon, including “‘My Rifle’s...