Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer has now been released by McFarland.
Essays describe how Buffy can be used to explain—and encourage further discussion of—television’s narrative complexity, archetypal characters, morality, feminism, identity, ethics, non-verbal communication, film production, media and culture, censorship, and Shakespeare, among other topics.
Jason Winslade, a scholar in Pagan studies (via performance studies) and a contributor to the volume, notes, “I used the show first in my occultism and pop culture course at DePaul, back when I first published about Buffy in 2001, then wound up doing an entire class on the show as a popular freshman seminar for several years. “
I know some may groan at this, but I think it’s actually kind of fantastic. I also wish that someone would similarly deconstruct the show Daria – not that it had occultism to it to any degree worth exploring – but because of its insightful nature and feminist positioning despite its placement on MTV.