[480] 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Creator Topic of "On The Record'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

‘BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’ CREATOR TOPIC OF ‘ON THE RECORD’
MTSU English Professor Compiles Book of Joss Whedon’s Interviews about TV

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. David Lavery, MTSU professor of English and the so-called “Father of Buffy Studies” will discuss his new book, Joss Whedon: Conversations, on the next edition of “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 8 a.m. this Sunday, May 29, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Whedon is the creator of the television programs “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” among others. Joss Whedon: Conversations, which is co-edited by Lavery and University of North Alabama instructor and MTSU alumna Cynthia Burkhead, is the first volume in the University Press of Mississippi’s Television Conversations Series.
Future books, which also will be co-edited by Lavery, will chronicle the words of such television auteurs as David Milch (“N.Y.P.D. Blue”) and Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”).
Lavery has organized international academic conferences on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “The Sopranos” and “Lost.” He is the author of more than 120 published essays, chapters and reviews and has had a hand in writing and/or editing 23 published or under contract books, most of them about television.
To listen to previous programs, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/news/podcast/podcast2010.shtml. For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.


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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. In September 2011, MTSU will celebrate its 100th year anniversary with special events and activities throughout the year—kicked off by a Blue-Tie Centennial Gala on Friday, Sept. 9.