Kennedy: Buffy believes in you. Willow: You know Buffy? Sweet girl, not that bright.

© Don Macnaughtan 2004

This bibliography covers some of the huge volume of print and electronic media that have been produced since 1997 on "Buffy" and "Angel." It includes books, articles, essays, primary materials such as scripts and dvds, websites, fiction, games, and many other manifestations of the Buffyverse canon.

Buffy Conferences and Events

Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse sponsored by Gordon College and Middle Tennessee State University, Barnesville, 26-28 May 2006.

The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville, May 2004.

Dragon*Con Buffytrack Atlanta, August (annual)

Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA 2007

Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA 2006

Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA 2005

Bring Your Own Subtext: Social life, human experience and the works of Joss Whedon sponsored by the University of Huddersfield, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer sponsored by the University of East Anglia, Oct. 2002.

Buffyverse 2002 sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2002.

It's the End of the World . . . Again: Why Buffy Still Matters March 2007, University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Archive of Papers from the Slayage Conference, Nashville, May 2004.

Ginley, Joanne "Conference sinks teeth into Buffy's role in teaching." Yorkshire Post Today 26 May 2005.

"ACADEMICS from across the globe are set to descend on a West Yorkshire university for a three-day conference looking at how TV cult hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer can be used to aid learning.

The conference will examine how people are influenced by popular culture and how the programme draws parallels with everyday life. Academics at Huddersfield University's Department of Behavioural Sciences say the show, which first aired on TV in the late 1990s, can be used as a vital teaching aid, demonstrating issues such as a young, strong lead female character and even tackling a lesbian love affair.

Nigel King, a reader in psychology at Huddersfield University, says incorporating popular culture in teaching helps get a point across quickly. "TV is a massive force in our society and I think it would be wrong to ignore its impact," he said. But last night news of the conference was attacked by York-based Campaign for Real Education. Chairman Nick Seaton said: "University academics should be concentrating on literature that has stood the test of time, rather than spending their time on trendy, modern TV programmes, no matter how popular. "It's very hard to see how it will benefit academic study."

But, such is the appeal of Buffy that the three-day conference (June 29 - July 1) has attracted academics, including specialists in media studies, philosophy and psychology, from as far afield as America, Canada and Europe. Huddersfield psychology lecturer Viv Burr believes the programme, which introduced heroine Buffy Summers, played by actress Sarah Michelle Gellar to TV screens, is thought-provoking.

Dr Burr said: "If you think about how society changes and about what's acceptable and unacceptable, media art is to some degree responsible for that. Something that has a cult following which captures people's imagination and raises questions, like Buffy, makes you want to know how people take up those messages and how it relates to their own life. "Even at the ordinary fan level, there is discussion about the Buffy stories and about what the writers have been trying to do this week." Dr Louise Child, teaching assistant in the theology and religious studies department at Leeds University, welcomed the conference. She uses Buffy to explore the emotion of horror. "It's a remarkably well-written programme and I find it very useful because you have got a supernatural plot and then have an everyday sub-plot."

In April a conference was held at Manchester Metropolitan University, on iconic 1980s band The Smiths which attracted some of the world's leading academics.''

Taylor, Charles. "A Weekend With Buffy, Vampire Slayer and Seminar Topic." New York Times 24 Nov. 2002: 38.
''I'm not a pagan myself, but I work with them.'' Not what you'd expect to hear at an academic conference, perhaps, but then this wasn't your typical academic conference. ''Blood, Text and Fears,'' which took place here this fall at the University of East Anglia, was the first academic conference ever devoted to ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer.''

Let's get the giggles and snorts out of the way now. The idea of an academic conference devoted to a show called ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is bound to arouse derision, and all sorts of talk about the trivialization of academia. That condescending cast of mind is all too familiar to those of us who have championed this gothic teen drama as the most daring, innovative and emotionally complex show on television.

Like all great fantasies, ''Buffy'' is grounded in emotional reality. Its fantastic elements only serve to heighten and amplify its emotional impact (just as the bigness of opera amplifies emotion). Now in its seventh season, ''Buffy'' has escaped the staleness that overtakes almost all long-running television series. Like the ''Harry Potter'' books, it confronts darker and scarier emotions as its characters grow older.

It's ''a tremendously rich text,'' said Dr. Carol O'Sullivan, the associate director of the university's British Center for Literary Translation and an organizer of the conference. ''It's now built up as a body of work substantial enough, and well thought out enough, that it sort of lays itself open and invites interpretation,'' she said. So a ''Buffy'' conference is no more outlandish than the notion of academic attention being paid to C. S. Lewis's ''Narnia'' books or to ''The Lord of the Rings.'' Though it may still amuse those for whom ''adult television'' is epitomized by the tidy and dull civics lessons of ''The West Wing.''

Zacharek, Stephanie "Deconstructing Buffy: Scholarly Buffy-philes Gather at an English University to Discuss the "Morphic Resonance" and "Perlocutionary Acts" of TV's Favorite Ghoul-Killin' Gal." Salon 9 Nov. 2002.

since 1 August 2007