So I've been browsing around in The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, as one does, and I was really struck by Sara Gwenllian Jones's essay "The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters" (2002 ( Read more... )

Every now and then I have thoughts about things. Sometimes I post them. This is one of those times.

While I'm on the subject of thoughts: azdak has written an interesting post about morality in the Buffyverse. faith_delivers, check it out! (And join mutant_allies! *g*)

Credits and disclaimers: This post is a version of the Buffy paper I gave recently. It is thus considerably ( Read more... )

This post is for coffee_and_ink.

Got back this evening from the Albuquerque conference where faith_delivers and another colleague and I presented papers on BtVS. We all agreed that we had the best BtVS panel there (and there were lots- BtVS was the theme of the SFF strand of the conference). There were two other papers that were as good as ours, or nearly so, but each of ( Read more... )

Got a job offer this morning. Begged off saying yea or nay until I can hear from other prospects - just collatin' data, as they say - but it is really, really good to have an offer ( Read more... )

Between my campus interviews and an upcoming conference presentation on Buffy, I am going to be away from home and/or traveling for 13 of the next 21 days. That's 62%, for the statistically-minded among you. As a confirmed homebody, I find these numbers exhausting merely to contemplate ( Read more... )

I mentioned a while back (in this post) that some colleagues and I were putting together a panel on BtVS for a media conference early next spring. Turns out that our panel's been accepted, so we'll be going to Albuquerque in February to hold forth about the epistemology of evil and whatnot. Go team us ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I met with some relatively-recently-converted BtVS fans in my department to talk about putting together a panel proposal for a media conference taking place in February. Good meeting, smart people. And a slightly strange experience, too, because these are folks who aren't involved in fandom in any serious way (although I suspect ( Read more... )

This afternoon, truepenny and I finished kluging together an academic abstract for an upcoming con at which we're co-presenting on Firefly (because we're geeks like that). We still don't have a title, although Truepenny is pitching for starting off with "Jayne, you'll scare the women," followed by the obligatory academic colon and explanatory bits. [ETA: I ( Read more... )

Have spent most of the past week thinking about BtVS. Watched "Lessons," discussed with Heather aka renenet, rewatched, discussed with S., and, most recently, have been working on two -- count 'em, two -- academic projects involving the show: an article and an abstract, both due on Tuesday ( Read more... )