Buffy Scholar/Critic

Anthony Lioi received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Rutgers University. His fields of study include ecocriticism, Composition Studies, the Anglophone essay, and popular culture. He currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and in Women's Studies. He has an enduring interest in the intersection between feminist politics and geek culture.

 

Lioi, Anthony. Giving Them the Axe: Witches, Slayers, and a Final Feminist Enchantment (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004)