Editing Buffy the Vampire Slayer (section)

===Academia===
{{main|Buffy studies}}
[[File:Anthony Stewart Head and Nicholas Brendon Aug 2004.jpg|250px|thumb|Anthony Stewart Head and Nicholas Brendon at the 2004 Oakland Super SlayerCon fan convention]]
''Buffy'' is notable for attracting the interest of scholars of popular culture, as a subset of [[popular culture studies]], and some academic settings include the show as a topic of literary study and analysis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lins |first1=Marcella |title=Libertarianism in Pop Culture: Applying libertarian principles to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Season 4 |journal=MISES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Law and Economics |date=2020 |volume=8 |doi=10.30800/mises.2020.v8.1317 |doi-access=free |issn=2318-0811|url=https://misesjournal.org.br/misesjournal/article/download/1317/685 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20040529/scholars_buffy_040529/ |title=Scholars lecture on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' |publisher=CTV News |date=May 29, 2004 |access-date=March 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604122828/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20040529/scholars_buffy_040529/ |archive-date=June 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://metro.co.uk/2006/05/16/study-buffy-at-university-79726/ |title=Study Buffy at university |publisher=Metro.co.uk |date=May 16, 2006 |access-date=March 9, 2013 |archive-date=February 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226211257/http://metro.co.uk/2006/05/16/study-buffy-at-university-79726/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[National Public Radio]] describes ''Buffy'' as having a "special following among academics, some of whom have staked a claim in what they call 'Buffy Studies.'"<ref>[https://www.npr.org/people/3850482/neda-ulaby] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119052543/https://www.npr.org/people/3850482/neda-ulaby|date=January 19, 2022}}[[Neda Ulaby|Ulaby, Neda]], '[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1262180 – 'Buffy Studies'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311015358/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1262180|date=March 11, 2018}}", ''National Public Radio'' (May 13, 2003)</ref> Though not widely recognized as a distinct discipline, the term "Buffy studies" is commonly used amongst the peer-reviewed academic ''Buffy''-related writings.<ref>Lavery, David, & Wilcox, Rhonda V. (2001–). The term is in use from the subtitle of ''Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies'', and has thus become used in essays by those who contribute to scholarship relating to ''Buffy''.</ref> The influence of ''Buffy'' on the depiction of vampires across popular culture has also been noted by anthropologists such as A. Asbjørn Jøn.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805194 |title=From Nosteratu to Von Carstein: shifts in the portrayal of vampires |last=Jøn |first=A. Asbjørn |date=2001 |journal=Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies |access-date=October 30, 2015 |issue=16 |pages=97–106 |archive-date=November 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125163106/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805194_From_Nosteratu_to_Von_Carstein_shifts_in_the_portrayal_of_vampires |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.englishteacher.com.au/Resources/mETAphor.aspx |title=Vampire Evolution |last=Jøn |first=A. Asbjørn |date=2003 |journal=METAphor |issue=3 |access-date=November 5, 2015 |archive-date=October 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011103226/http://www.englishteacher.com.au/Resources/mETAphor.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> Popular media researcher [[Rob Cover]] argued that Buffy and Angel speak to contemporary attitudes to identity, inclusion, and diversity, and that critiquing the characters' long-narrative stories lends insight into the complexity of identity in the current era and the landscape of social issues in which those identities are performed.<ref>Cover, Rob (2004). "[http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/042/cover.htm From Butler To Buffy: Notes Towards a Strategy for Identity Analysis in Contemporary Television Narrative] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126194638/http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/042/cover.htm |date=November 26, 2016 }}." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 4(2). Retrieved November 22, 2016</ref><ref>Cover, Rob (2005). "[https://www.academia.edu/30095293/Cover_Rob_2005_._Not_To_Be_Toyed_With_Drugs_Addiction_Bullying_and_Self_Empowerment_in_Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer._Continuum_Journal_of_Media_and_Cultural_Studies_19_1_85-101 Not To Be Toyed With: Drugs Addiction, Bullying and Self Empowerment in Buffy The Vampire Slayer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021015011/https://www.academia.edu/30095293/Cover_Rob_2005_._Not_To_Be_Toyed_With_Drugs_Addiction_Bullying_and_Self_Empowerment_in_Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer._Continuum_Journal_of_Media_and_Cultural_Studies_19_1_85-101 |date=October 21, 2019 }}." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 19(1): 85–101.</ref>

Critics have responded to the academic attention the series has received. For example, Jes Battis, who authored ''[[Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel|Blood Relations in Buffy and Angel]]'', admits that study of the Buffyverse "invokes an uneasy combination of enthusiasm and ire", and meets "a certain amount of disdain from within the halls of the academy".<ref>Battis, Jes, [[Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel|''Blood Relations'']], ''McFarland & Company'' (June 2005), page 9.</ref> Nonetheless, ''Buffy'' eventually led to the publication of around twenty books and hundreds of articles examining the themes of the show from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including [[sociology]], [[Speech Communication]], [[psychology]], [[philosophy]], and [[women's studies]].<ref>See:
Hornick, Alysa, "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100929233913/http://www.alysa316.com/Whedonology/ ''Whedonology'' an Academic Buffy Studies and Whedonesque Bibliography]}}", ''Alysa316.com'' (updated 2006). See [[Buffy studies#Works in print|Buffy studies published books]].</ref> In a 2012 study by ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' was named the most studied pop culture work by academics, with more than 200 papers, essays, and books devoted to the series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/pop-culture-studies-why-do-academics-study-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-more-than-the-wire-the-matrix-alien-and-the-simpsons.html |title=Which Pop Culture Property Do Academics Study the Most? |work=Slate |author1=Lametti, Daniel |author2=Harris, Aisha |author3=Geiling, Natasha |author4=Matthews-Ramo, Natalie |date=June 11, 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119052543/https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/pop-culture-studies-why-do-academics-study-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-more-than-the-wire-the-matrix-alien-and-the-simpsons.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Whedon Studies Association produces the online academic journal ''Slayage'' and sponsors a biennial academic conference on the works of Whedon. The sixth "Biennial Slayage Conference", titled "Much Ado About Whedon", was held at [[California State University, Sacramento|California State University-Sacramento]] in late June 2014.<ref name="The">{{cite news |first=Patricia |last=Pender |title=Vampires beware: Buffy is the unslayable pop culture text |url=http://theconversation.com/vampires-beware-buffy-is-the-unslayable-pop-culture-text-28142 |access-date=June 21, 2014 |work=The Conversation |date=June 19, 2014 |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706070809/http://theconversation.com/vampires-beware-buffy-is-the-unslayable-pop-culture-text-28142 |url-status=live }}</ref>