Buffy Scholar/Critic

Jennifer K. Stuller ( http://www.ink-stainedamazon.com/ ) is a professional writer, critic, independent scholar, pop culture herstorian, book author, content advisor, and public speaker. Her first book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology, is a comprehensive history, critique, and reference guide examining feminist history and potential in popular culture. It will be available from I.B. Tauris in January, 2010 and features a Foreword by noted Buffy scholar and critic, Roz Kaveney.

Ms. Stuller graduated from the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, where as a student she co-created and co-facillitated a credited course that used episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in tandem with theoretical readings to explore issues of human nature. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stuller currently resides in Seattle with her husband and their two Maltese, Giles and Wesley.

Stuller, Jennifer K. Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology. London: I.B. Tauris, January, 2010.

__, "Where Do We Go From Here? Female Heroes in a Post-Buffy Context." (paper presented at the Second Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Barnesville GA, May 2006)

 __, "Buffy and the Amazon Princess" (paper presented at the Holy Men in Tights: A Superheroes Conference at the University of Melbourne, Australia, June 2005)