If you plan an academic paper on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), your professor will have the final say on which sources are acceptable. Always consult with her or him if you will be using web sources.

This is a short guide for Claremont Colleges students to begin BtVS research. Claremont Colleges students are welcome to contact Meg Garrett, Media Studies Subject Specialist, Honnold/Mudd Library, for further assistance. Please email meg.garrett@libraries.claremont.edu or call x77101.

Books available at the Claremont Colleges (all Honnold unless noted):

• Athena's daughters : television's new women warriors / edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Part 2 is all BtVS articles. PN1992.8.W65 A88 2003
• Buffy the vampire slayer and philosophy : fear and trembling in Sunnydale / edited by James B. South PN1992.77.B84 B835 2003
• Catching a wave : reclaiming feminism for the 21st century / edited by Rory Dicker & Alison Piepmeier HQ1426 .C284 2003 One BtVS article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Next Generation of Television / Michele Byers
• Cult television / Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, editors PN1992.5 .C85 2004 contains: Monsters and Metaphors: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Old World, by Mary Hammond.
• Fantasy girls : gender in the new universe of science fiction and fantasy television / edited by Elyce Rae Helford. PN1992.8 W6 F36 2000
  Contains one BtVS essay “To be a vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: race and ("other") socially marginalizing positions on horror TV” by Kent A. Ono.
• Fighting the forces : what's at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. PN1992.77 B84 F54 2002 Twenty essays.
• Jane Austen and co. : remaking the past in contemporary culture / Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson, editors PR4038.F55 J33 2003 Contains: Love at the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Kristina Straub.
• Kinderculture : the corporate construction of childhood / edited by Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe. LB1139.25 .K55 2004 contains: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as spectacular allegory : a diagnostic critique by Douglas Kellner.
• The medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy / edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray PN1995.9.H44 M44 2004 Contains:
• Reading the vampire slayer : an unofficial critical companion to Buffy and Angel / edited by Roz Kaveney. PN1992.77 B84 R4 2001 Ten essays and episode guide.
• Seven seasons of Buffy : science fiction and fantasy authors discuss their favorite television show / edited by Glenn Yeffeth   PN1992.77.B84 S48 2003 Excellent collection.
• Slayer slang : a Buffy the vampire slayer lexicon / by Michael Adams
  HON REF PN1992.77.B84 A34 2003
• Teen TV : genre, consumption, identity / edited by Glyn Davis and Kay Dickinson HQ799.2.T4 T4 2004 Contains 'So Who's Got Time for Adults!': Femininity, Consumption and the Development of Teen TV--from Gidget to Buffy by Bill Osgerby
• The television history book / edited by Michele Hilmes ; associate editor, Jason Jacobs  PN1992.3.G7 T45 2003 Contains: Audiences and the Internet (Xena and Buffy Fans) / Allison McCracken
• Televised morality : the case of Buffy the vampire slayer / Gregory Stevenson PN1992.77.B84 S74 2003
• Vampire legends in contemporary American culture : what becomes a legend most / William Patrick Day. PS374 V35 D39 2002 Chapter 6: "Return of the Slayer" contains some references to BtVS.
• The warrior women of television: a feminist cultural analysis of the new female body in popular media / Dawn Heinecken  PN1992.8.W65 H45 2003 Contains chapter: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Body in Relation

Other books: A web site that lists books about BtVS is The Buffy Library.
This includes the Buffy novels, The Watchers Guides, and other non-academic sources.

Online journal Slayage: The On-line International Journal of Buffy Studies is edited by David Lavery, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, and Rhonda V. Wilcox, Professor of English at Gordon College, Barnesville, GA. Contributors are primarily academics.

Finding academic articles: An excellent annotated bibliography is Derik A. Badman’s The Academic Buffy Bibliography: An (partially) Annotated Bibliography of Critical/Academic Writings on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Access is by author only, so a lot of browsing is needed. Nonetheless it is a research time-saver and the annotations are helpful. Be aware of link problems inside the site, which can be worked around.

Databases These databases will retrieve citations to scholarly and popular articles about BtVS.

• OmniFile (popular magazines and academic journals in social sciences and humanities, some full text)
• Contemporary Women's Issues (scholarly and popular articles on gender and women's studies)
• Gender Watch (scholarly and popular articles on gender and women's studies)
• International Index to the Performing Arts (includes media studies)
• MLA Bibliography (a few scholarly articles on television and popular culture)
• LexisNexis Academic--Arts and Sports News / Entertainment (newspaper stories, including trade papers)
• Arts and Humanities Search (few, many duplicates from other databases)
• Art Full Text (few, many duplicates from other databases)
• Women's Resources International (women's studies)