The teen TV show that taught me how to live
At the very start of my writing career, I was a published academic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer studies.My first piece of published writing was a co-authored paper — you can still find it online —called “Para-sites of the soul”. The first lecture I ever delivered was on madness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its links to depictions of madness in Greek tragedy. I was an eager reader of the journal Slayage.This hadn’t been part of my plan.
I met the co-author of my first academic paper at that first conference. The next conference would be the following year, 2004, in Nashville, Tennessee. I had no money, I was a student, I couldn’t possibly go. And yet, I had to go. I felt — as it says in the Torah — “impelled by the force of the Divine Word”. I sold my possessions on eBay — an SLR camera my mother had given me, some clothes — to buy an overnight economy ticket.
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