“Reality allows
the writer to care about the characters:…
…construction allows the fan to become the fan writer.”
Convention and Conference Reports
Buffyverse 2002: The Buffy Symposium -
An academic event, not that you'd ever know it by the lookalike
contests, round robin fanfics, and scarily fannish fans around. What follows
are summaries of the fifteen papers presented, plus my own comments and
analyses of the day.
Conference Report Introduction
Session One - Buffy: Critical Approaches and
Interpretations
Session Two - Fans, Fanfiction and Buffy Icons
Session Three - Monsters, Witches and Robots
Session Four - Genres, Form and Cross-media
Buffsters
Collected Resources List
- Under Construction
Robert Beltran -
Robbie Duncan McNeill, Max Grodenchik and Lolita
Fatjo - Melbourne,
Anxiety as Demon in Victorian and Popular Postmodern Gothic: A Literature essay discussing the
gothic themes in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Joss Whedon's Buffy the
Vampire Slayer. (2001; .pdf file)
Equivalence or Equality? Representations of Gender in Star Trek:
Voyager Fan Fiction: Written for an
Honours-level Gender Studies class. Includes analysis of
stories by Boadicea, DA Kent, Michelle Marquand, Monkee, Siubhan, Vanhunks and
Your Cruise Director. (2002; .pdf file)
Journals
Eclectic Eccentricities — Sängerin’s Live Journal: An eclectic collection of musings, quizzes,
articles, links and memes on topics as diverse as Girls Own literature,
theology, Star Trek, spirituality, politics, Spooks, music, The West Wing, and,
of course, writing.
Star Trek and International Law: An ongoing and moving-at-a-snail's-pace
journaling project trying to determine exactly what TPTB's approach to
international law really is. Currently only one file with four or five entries,
but I continue to hope that one day I can turn it into an essay. May eventually be merged
into my LJ. More…
Why
“Sängerin”?
I learnt German for nine years, and after that long, it becomes
part of your life. Another major part of my life is music, specifically
singing…and Sängerin is the German for 'singer', in the feminine form.