BA Theses

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Hemmingson, Margaret L. Sex, Family, and the Home: Portrayals of Gender in the Domestic Sphere in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural. BA honors thesis, Elon University, Elon, NC, 2011. http://elonuniversity.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15446coll7/id/82/rec/6

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Javaid, Hanan. Getting Slayed by Buffy: An Analysis of Meaning in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000.

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Johansen, Vibeke. 'The Divine Exists in Cyberspace Same as Out Here': Academics and the Internet Fan-Scholars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia, 2004.

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Jones, Kelli. Getting Acquainted with the Inner Moppet: The Vampire as a Reflection/Catalyst in The Traveling Vampire Show andBuffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2005.

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Mai, Emily. Writing the Vampire: Constitutions of Gender in Carmilla, Dracula, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2009. http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/2976

 

Master’s 

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Agee, Richard S. 'Hot chicks with superpowers': Feminist Empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, 2013.

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Alnwick, Marie. Translating the Buffyverse: Examining French Fan Response to Buffy contre les vampires. Masters thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2007.

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Andrade, Jessica. The Gender Politics of Female Action Heroes in Television and Films. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2005 https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/2099

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Bayles, Jaq. Drop-Dead Monstrous: The Funcion of Female Perversity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2001.

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Behm, Elizabeth A. Where's the Power in Girl Power? Images of Femininity and Feminism on Network Television. Masters thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2003.

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Berger, Laura. 'Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged': Being a Man in a Feminist Coming of Age Story: Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 2011. 

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Biskup, Kristina. (Dis)Continuities of Gender: Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis,Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2006.

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Bruggink, Heidi J. Taking Back the Night: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Girl Power Feminism. BA honors thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

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Bryce, Devon Elizabeth. Surviving the Change: the Domestication of the Vampire in Literature, Film, and Television. Masters thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2009.

Carroll, Shiloh R. Fantasy and Pedagogy: The Use of Fantasy in College Classrooms. Masters thesis, Radford University, Radford, VA, 2008.

https://www.academia.edu/246055/Fantasy_and_Pedagogy_The_Use_of_Fantasy_in_College_Classrooms

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Clarke, Ann E. 'Sexual Tension You Could Cut with a Knife': Sexuality on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2004.

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Dempsey-Richardson, Caleb Randall. 'It's like we were being watched... like there were only 3 walls, and not a fourth wall': Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, 2013.

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Destefano, Rashi F. N. Who Are We? A Moral and Visual Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2004.

Dethlefsen, Alta E. A Feminist Named Buffy? Women in Horror Films of the 1990s. Masters thesis, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1995.

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Double, Krystalle. Female Roles and Fan Fiction in Charmed, Supernatural, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013. http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/2221/

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Dudley, Rebecca. Lesbians and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture, the Internet and the Creation of Community" Masters thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

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Durant, Amy. 'In every generation there is a chosen one': Choice, Family and Motherhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. BA honors thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2011.

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Dvoskin, Michelle G. Under Their Spell: How the Musical Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Queer the Audience. Masters thesis, University of Texas – Austin, Austin, TX, 2006.

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Elden, Gro. The Buffyverse and its Inhabitants: A Study of Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002.

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England, Marcia. Who's Afraid of the Dark? Not Buffy! A Feminist Examination of the Paradoxical Representations of Public and Private Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002.

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Farghaly, Nadine. Patriarchy Strikes Back: Power and Perception in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. MA thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2009. 

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Foley, Timothy Michael. Double Coded Feminist TV: Overlooked Contradictions within Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, 2013. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/22457

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Fuller [de la Rosa], Nicole (Nikki) Faith. The Hero's Journey Revamped in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA, 2007.

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Gibson-James, Jessica N. The Aud One Out in the Final Battle: An Anya-Centered Feminist Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, OH, 2006.

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Goile, Joanne E. Fascinations of Fiction: An Examination of Devices Used within the Television Programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer That Succeed in Blurring the Boundaries between Viewers and the Fictional Diegesis of the Show. Masters thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 2003. 

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Graham, Brita Marie. Buffy at Play: Tricksters, Deconstruction, and Chaos at Work in the Whedonverse. Masters thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2007. http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1/1371/GrahamB0507.pdf?sequence=1

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Griffiths, Estelle L. Talk about Television: The Uses of Buffy in Identity Formation and Self-Understanding. BA honors thesis, University of Tasmania, Burnie, Australia, 2000.

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Havelka, Emily Suzanne. 'The painful noun-ing process': The Arduous Journey of Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Alma College, Alma, MI, 2012.

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Heggen, Amanda H. The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Masters thesis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2014. https://repository.unm.edu/handle/1928/24315

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Helms, Bari L. Reel Librarians: The Stereotype and Technology. Masters thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006.  https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record;jsessionid=B0F253A96B0BDFFD4DF5C2DBEADDD7F5?id=uuid%3Abe6a349a-f8aa-42c1-8f11-39550c3b1759

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Hoyt, Heather. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Hero's Journey. Masters thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2007.

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Kem, Jessica Freya. Cataloging the Whedonverse: Potential Roles for Librarians in Online Fan Fiction. Masters thesis, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005. 

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Keough, Sarah. The Slayer Goes to College: Teaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the University. BA honors thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2009.

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Ketskarova, Violeta Rumyanova. From Beowulf to Buffy: Or, Why Do We Keep Chasing Evil Dragons and Glorifying Virtuous Heroes?BA honors thesis, Reed College, Portland, OR, 2008. 

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Krawczyk, Marian. 'She Kicks Ass... in Heels': Negotiating Representations of Feminity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 2006.

Kristensen, Anne C. Evolution of the Vampire Genre: From Polidori's The Vampyre to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark, 2003.

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Linsley, Brent. Opposing Buffy: Power, Responsibility and the Narrative Function of the Big Bad in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

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Lyn, Liang-Chih. Blondes and the Horror Genre: The Subversion of Gender and Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Masters thesis, National Central University, Zhongli City, Taiwan, 2006.

 

McTee, Sasha Rene. 'But, You're Just A Girl': The Female Hero in Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy. MA thesis, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 2013.

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Marks, Rick Brian. Targeting Families and Teens: Television Violence on the WB. Masters thesis, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 2000.

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Merrick, Robin M. Buffy Can Be Stuffy: The Rhetoric of Pop Culture and Post-Feminist Ideology with Composition Applications in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, 2003.

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Meyer, Jenna. 'You're a Vampire... Was That an Offensive Term? Should I Say "Undead American"?' The Evolution of the Vampire in Popular Culture. Masters thesis, State University of New York – Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2010.

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Musgrove, Kristie L. Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction and the Evolution of the Female Hero in Sarah Wood's Julia and the Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 2008.

Myers, Brian. An Exploration of Female Superheroes in Television. BA honors thesis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2006. 

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Newsom, Victoria A. Girls of Power: 'Girl Power' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sailor Moon, and Queen Amidala from Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. Masters thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2000.

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Noble, Julia F. Slaying for Keeps: Gender, Genre, and Saving the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2000.