Emily Dial-Driver is a professor of English at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma, and fiction editor of RSU's Cooweescoowee: A Journal of Arts and Letters. Sally Emmons-Featherston is an associate professor of English at Rogers State University and the managing editor of Cooweescoowee. Jim Ford teaches humanities, philosophy, and religion at Rogers State University and is director of the honors program. His articles have been published in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and Honors in Practice. Carolyn Anne Taylor is an associate professor of political science at Rogers State University and previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She lives in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Preface

Emily Dial-Driver

Introduction

Jim Ford

What's It All About, Buffy? Victor Frank and Buffy

Emily Dial-Driver

Got Myself a Soul? The Puzzling Treatment of the Soul in Buffy

J. Renée Cox

Not Just Another Love Song: Buffy's Music as Representation of Emerging Adulthood

Jacqueline Bach

Is That Stereotype Dead? Working with and Against "Western" Stereotypes in Buffy

Sally Emmons-Featherston

Lord Acton Is Alive and Well in Sunnydale: Politics and Power in Buffy

Kenneth S. Hicks

Willow's Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by Connections

Frances E. Morris

Is It Art? The Artful "Hush" of St. Francis and the Gentlemen Blue Meanies

Gary Moeller

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Brechtian Techniques in Buffy

David Blakely

"The Ants Go Marching": Effective Lyrics in Buffy Episodes

Lori M. Butler

"Love the One You're With": Developing Xander

J. Michael McKeon

Texting Buffy: Allusions of Many Kinds

Emily Dial-Driver and Jesse Stallings

"What Shall Cordelia Say?" Buffy as Morality Play for the Twenty-First Century's Therapeutic Ethos

Gregory J. Thompson and Sally Emmons-Featherston

Witchy Women: Witchcraft in Buffy and in Contemporary African Culture

Juliet Evusa

"I'm Cookie Dough": Exploring Buffy Iconography

Kenneth S. Hicks and Carolyn Anne Taylor

A Life Well-Lived: Buffy and the Pursuit of Happiness

Jim Ford

Appendix: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes

Works Cited

About the Contributors

Index