Buffy Scholar/Critic

Dr. Linda Jencson currently instructs in the Anthropology Department of Appalachian State University. Her specialties within anthropology include cross cultural religion, pop culture, folklore and disaster studies. What better preparation for Buffy Studies? Her dissertation on Wicca and several publications focus on the uses of myth and story to motivate social action, especially in times of crisis. "I have  found, and truly believe, there in nothin' so bad, it can't be made better with a story."--Caleb

Jencson, Linda. The Male Hero in Feminish Society: Comparisons of Buffy's Spike and the Iroquois' Hiawatha (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004).