Slayage

Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies is a reference periodic publications on Buffy Studies. Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox, it was first published in January 2001.

History
The idea of Slayage was born in January of 2001 as David Lavery (1949-2016) and Rhonda V. Wilcox considered over one hundred and forty proposals submitted for possible inclusion in "Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). Lavery and Wilcox learned, also, that two other collections of essays on Buffy were in the works. It seemed obvious that there existed a not-soon-to-be-exhausted international critical and scholarly interest in the series. With ''Whoosh! The Journal of the International Association of Xenoid Studies in mind as a model, Slayage'' was born.



In the winter of 2009, beginning with Volume 7, Issue 3, Slayage became The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association rather than The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. In the summer of 2015, the name was once again changed to better reflect the nature of the journal: The Journal of Whedon Studies.

In 2004 the first Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was held in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Middle Tennessee State University. Now known as the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, the gathering occurs biennially and has met at Gordon College (2006), Henderson State University (2008), Flagler College (2010), the University of British Columbia (2012), California State University (2014), Kingston University in England (2016).

A quarterly until 2012, Slayage is now published twice a year — and will continue to be, for as long as interest warrants. The journal is a blind peer-reviewed publication.