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Abbott, Stacey. ""From Madman in the Basement to Self-Sacrificing Champion: The Multiple Faces of Spike." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 329-344.

Abbott, Stacey. "Queering the Bitch: Spike, Transgression and Erotic Empowerment." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 313-328.

Abbot, Stacey and Milly Williamson. "Introduction." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 275-288.

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Bates, Margaret, Emily M. Gustafson, Bryan C. Porterfield, and Lawrence B. Rosenfeld. "'When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?': Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike's Relationship." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005. Available online.

Bosseaux, Charlotte. "'Bloody hell. Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks. Oh God, I'm English': Translating Spike." Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture. Eds. Samantha George ad Bill Hughes. Special Issue of Gothic Studies 15.1 (May 2013): 21-32. Also presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 16-17 April 2010. 

Boyette, Michele. "The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Silly Villain: Spike is for Kicks." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001. Available online.

Burr, Vixen.  "Scholar/'shippers and Spikeaholics: Academic and Fan Identities at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 375-383.

Clendinning, Elizabeth. "Spike Ensouled: The Sonic Transformations of a Champion." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 75-98.

Dillon, Bryant. "The Trouble with Spike: An Examination of William the Bloody's Problematic Progression." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 60-72.

Fossey, Claire. "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer: Spike and the Underground Man." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003. Available online.

Greene, Richardand Wayne Yuen. "Why Can't We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001. Available online.

Grinnell, Jason D. "Aristotle, Kant, Spike, and Jayne: Ethics and Character in the Whedonverse." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 88-102.

Grossman, Jacob. "Spike, the Initiative, and the Substitution of the Technological for the Metaphysical." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Herman, Caroline. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dichotomy of Self: A Study in the Shadow Selves of Buffy and Spike." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), July 2005. Available online.

Herrmann, Andrew F. "'C-can we rest now?': Foucault and the Multiple Discursive Subjectivities of Spike." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013. Available online.

Hills, Matt and Rebecca Williams. "'It's All My Interpretation': Reading Spike Through the Subcultural Celebrity of James Marsters." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 345-365.

Kellner, Douglas.  "The Search for Spike's Balls." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 25-29.

Koontz [Guffey], K. Dale. "Growing After Death: Angel, Spike, and the Evolution of the Soul." In K. Dale Koontz. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 27-48.

Lavoie, Erin. "'Sex, Love and Sadomasochism: Buffy/Spike as a Queer Relationship." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.2 (8), September 2012. Also presented at NCUR: National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 31 March - 2 April 2011, at Pippi to Ripley: Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 23 April 2011, and at the English and Communication Department Colloquium, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 9 May 2011. Available online.

Leslie. "The Road Less Traveled: Mutant Enemy, Spike, Angel and Redemption at the End of the Day." Tabula Rasa website. Available online.

Linsley, Brent. "Complexes My Mother Left Me: Spike Meets Robin Wood." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 131-136.

Lowe, Donna. "The Last Spike: Jungian Individuation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 2.1 (2), July 2006. Available online.

McDonald, Paul F. "Buffy and the Beast: An Analysis of Buffy and Spike's Relationship." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

Magnusson, Gert. "Are Vampires Evil?: Categorizations of Vampires, and Angelus and Spike as the Immoral and the Amoral." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012. Available online.

Masson, Cynthea and Marni Stanley. "Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006. Available online.

Poole, Carol. "'Darn Your Sinister Attraction!': Narcissism in Buffy's Affair with Spike." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 21-34.

Powroz, Jennifer. The Hero's Quest of Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Analysis of Hybridized Gender and the Jungian Shadow. Masters thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

Richardson, J. Michael and J. Douglas Rabb.  "Angel and Spike: Soul Mates and Moral Responsibility." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 106-121.

----."Darla, Spike, and Xander: Love and Self-Sacrifice." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 75-89.

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Rowan. "Kissing a Fool: Smashing, Wrecking, and Rebuilding Spike's Identity." Tabula Rasa website, 2001. Also at The Existential Scoobies website, 2001. Available online here and here.

Shapiro, NancyKay. "Transgressing with Spike and Buffy." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 69-73.

Spah, Victoria. "Ain't Love Grand: Spike & Courtly Love." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002. Available online.

Spicer, Arwen. "'Love's Bitch But Man Enough to Admit It': Spike's Hybridized Gender." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002. Available online.

Stephenson, Sophie. "Spike as Spectacle: Liminality and Visual Pleasure." "Spike as Spectacle: Liminality and Visual Pleasure." All Slay 1 (2003): 7-12. Also presented as "Sex, Spectatorship and the Surface of the Body: Spike as Buffy's 'Dolly'" at the Buffy Down Under Convention, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 May 2003, and at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Symonds, Gwyn. "'Bollocks!': Spike Fans and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Available online.

___. "'A Little More Soul Than is Written': James Marsters' Performance of Spike and the Ambiguity of Evil in Sunnydale." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005.  Available online.

Turnbull, Sue. "Moments of Inspiration: Performing Spike." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 367-373.

Weis, Suzie. "Here Endeth the Lesson: The Relationship of Buffy and Spike." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 11 (2007). Available Online.

Wilcox, Rhonda V. Every Night I Save You: Buffy, Spike, Sex, and Redemption." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. 79-89. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002; and presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2002. 

Williamson, Milly. "How Spike Became a Vampire Star." The Lure Of The Vampire: Gender, Fiction And Fandom From Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, 2005, pp. 72-75.

___. "Spike, Sex and Subtext: Intertextual Portrayals of the Sympathetic Vampire on Cult Television." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. edited by  Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies,  vol. 8, no. 3, August 2005, pp. 289-311.

Wilson, Melanie. "She Believes in Me: Angel, Spike, and Redemption." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts, edited by Kevin K. Durand, McFarland, 2009., pp. 137-149.