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Article: 'Buffy' the academic slayer; F&M couple to speak at global conference dedicated to TV vampire slayer
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- May 8, 2004
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How could academics ever take a character named Buffy seriously?
Misty Bastian, an associate professor of anthropology at Franklin
& Marshall College, says that's a silly question.
Not only is she an unabashed fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,"
the popular television series that concluded last year after a
successful seven-year run, but she thinks the show is worthy of deep
academic study.
As it turns out, so do many other scholars from around the globe.
From May 28 to May 30, Bastian will attend the Slayage Conference
on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Nashville, Tenn., where academics from
all over the world will come together to present papers based on
their favorite supernatural comedy/drama ...