Jodie A. Kreider is an academic historian and lecturer in arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver. Her work has been published in the North American Journal of Welsh Studies. Meghan K. Winchell is an associate professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Let's Have a Lesson Then"

JODIE A. KREIDER and MEGHAN K. WINCHELL

To Spoil or Not to Spoil: Teaching Television's Narrative Complexity

DAVID KOCIEMBA

"Have You Tried Not Being a Slayer?" Performing Buffy Fandom in the Classroom

JASON LAWTON WINSLADE

And the Myth Becomes Flesh

TANYA R. COCHRAN

Round Up the Usable Suspects: Archetypal Characters in the Study of Popular Culture

BARRY MORRIS

Heroism on the Hellmouth: Teaching Morality Through Buffy

K. DALE KOONTZ

Whedon Takes "the Scary" Out of Feminism

MEGHAN K. WINCHELL
Buffy Goes to College: Identity and the Series-Based Seminar Course

ROD ROMESBURG

Ethics Homework from the Hellmouth: Buffy Stakes Her Claim in the First-year Composition Classroom

KEITH FUDGE

College Isn't Just Job Training and Parties: Stimulating Critical Thinking with "The Freshman"

MELISSA C. JOHNSON

"Can't Even Shout, Can't Even Cry" But You Can Learn! Non-Verbal Communication and "Hush"

BRIAN COGAN .

"Show, Don't Tell": Teaching the Elements of Film Production

JANE MARTIN

Television, Violence and Demons: Discussing Media Effects with the Vampire Slayer

ROSIE WHITE

Weeding Out the Offensive Material: Beaut y, Beasts, "Gingerbread," Television, Literature and Censorship

LEITH D ANIEL

"Best Damn Field Trip I Ever Took!" Historical Encounters In and Out of the Classroom

JODIE A. KREIDER

Little Red Riding ... Buffy? "Buff y vs. Dracula" in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English

K RISTOPHER KARL WOOFTER
Buffy the Black Feminist? Intersectionality and Pedagogy

PATRICK R. GRZANKA

Slaying Shakespeare in High School : Buff y Battles The Merchant of Venice and Othello

JULIA L. GRANT

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