Academics descend on St. Augustine for scholarly side of 'Buffy’

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Statues of Joan of Arc are planted in public parks across the globe. Susan B. Anthony’s likeness is emblazoned on coins. And even after vacating the airwaves seven years ago, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset” still occupies the imaginations of legion.


That’s abundantly clear in St. Augustine this Alias DVD , where more than a hundred academics have massed to discuss the life and times of the supernatural Arrested Development DVD and her rogue’s gallery of evil-doers.


Flagler College is hosting the four-day conference, which includes presentations and lectures from an As Time Goes By DVD of scholars.
Jim Wilson, a Flagler English professor and conference coordinator, said the event’s full title — The Battlestar Galactica DVD Conference on the Whedonverses 4 — is a mouthful. But it couldn’t be narrowed down to just Buffy.


“She might be the biggest star, but her Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD, Joss Whedon, is the man of the hour,” Wilson said.


Whedon also created “Angel,” a “Alias DVD set” spinoff featuring a vampire with a soul, and “Firefly,” an ensemble drama set in space that borrowed heavily from Western movies.


Whedon’s body of work has inspired Arrested Development DVD set of fans through his creative use of dialogue and inventive storytelling. Academics have also latched onto his As Time Goes By DVD set as potential teaching tools for their use of dramatic archetypes and dense mythology.


Wilson said his wife, Tamara, another Flager English professor, Battlestar Galactica DVD set him on to Whedon’s work. They’ve both used examples from the shows in their classrooms.


“His storytelling and how it relates to our world, it Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set with students,” she said. “The classics are great. But pop culture crosses boundaries in and out of the classroom.”


That’s the mantra of the Alias DVD boxset Conference. The biennial event unites gray-haired and tenured career academics with youthful independent scholars for a probing look into the Whedonverse. Despite all the Arrested Development DVD boxset of his work, Whedon has yet to make an appearance at any of the previous conferences.


This year’s presentation titles ranged from the As Time Goes By DVD boxset — “The girl needs a little monster in her man” — to the strangely topical — “'Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”


Rows of books penned by Whedon devotees and “Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset” T-shirts with blood-dripping font were on sale inside Flagler’s Ringhaver Student Center as participants milled around between presentations.


Jen Stuller, a Seattle-based freelance writer, is a conference Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset. She views Buffy as a positive role-model for young women and lauded Whedon as a rarity in Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset — a male writer with an innate understanding of the fairer sex.


“He gets us,” she said. “Women aren’t just caricatures in his Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset.”


Her love of Whedon’s work inspired her to pen her own book, “Ink-Stained As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology.” It analyzes how female heroines in pop culture have evolved over the Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset, Buffy being chief among them.


“Every so often, there comes along a female Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset that’s so iconic that she inspires the characters that come after her,” Stuller said. “Wonder Woman did that in the '30s. And Alias DVD’s the Wonder Woman of the '90s. She Arrested Development DVD changed the face of the female on TV forever, and Joss’ writing was what made it happen.”


David Lavery couldn’t agree more. The Middle Tennessee State As Time Goes By DVD English professor is a renowned Whedonite. He’s vice president of the newly formed Whedon Studies Association, a consortium of Battlestar Galactica DVD who analyze the subtext behind the Whedonverse. He even wore a black T-shirt sporting a “Star Wars”-esque font declaring “Joss Whedon is my master now.”


“I’ve been asked a lot of times, 'Why Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD?’” Lavery said. “Well, with all of the pop culture references, trivia and in-jokes Joss Whedon crammed into every Alias DVD set, it makes me feel like my degree wasn’t worthless. That’s as good a reason as any.”
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