Kelsey - Let’s Talk about Writing: How the Buffyverse and Fandom Work to Create a More Self-Aware Conversation Between Writers and Their Form

( Two parts rec, One part fangirling, Three parts: this is me! )

Day Three:

Keynote Speaker

( Tami Burnett - “I’ve Got These Evil Hand Issues”: Amputation, Identity, and Agency in Angel )

Featured Speakers

( Alyson Buckman - “Didn’t get the Memo? Hero of the People Now”: Hat Tricks and the Complication of Viewer Response )

Fandom Panel

( Jennifer K Stuller - Numfar! Do the Dance of Seduction! )

Day Two: Panel One

History, Culture, and Pop Culture in the Whedonverse

( Leslie Pearson- Re-Presenting Reality: Exploring Cultural Narratives at work in BtVS - Willow Rosenberg: How Being the Good Girl is Not a Good Thing )

Slayage Notes

Day One - Part Two

( Intertextual Whedonverse )

Day One
Keynote Speaker> Cynthea Masson (possibly the sweetest person on the planet, btw)
“Break Out the Champagne, Pinocchio”: Angel and the Puppet Paradox

( So... Puppet Theory is a THING )

I just decided - because I'm me and I'm just obnoxious - to not only write a paper about how fanfiction is a form of analysis - but also to write a paper that confronts the art of writing papers in a VERY literal and kind of smart-assery way. *cringes ( Read more... )