Matthew Pateman is Professor of Popular Aesthetics and has worked as Head of Department at Kingston and Sheffield Hallam universities, and is now at Edge Hill University.
Pateman received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds where he wrote a thesis on the fiction of Julian Barnes. During his time at the University he was an active member of the School of English's graduate community and had his own weekly column on the books pages of the student paper, Leeds Student. Having taught as a postgraduate tutor at Leeds, in 1994 he was appointed a lecturer at the Scarborough unit of the University of Hull. He primarily taught popular culture, using the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a guideline. He subsequently became Senior Lecturer in Culture and Media Studies at the University of Hull before his appointment at Kingston University in the fall of 2010. Subsequently, he moved to Hallam and taught across English, TV, Film, Theory and Drama. His research continues to be equally diverse and he has recently been working on the films of Aryan Kaganof as well as his continuing work on Whedon and modern literature. He is still active within student media, hosting a regular show on the departmental Student Radio station, 'Edgehog Radio [1] .
He has served as the Gerard Manley Hopkins Lecturer for the 2003-2004 academic year at John Carroll University, near Cleveland, Ohio
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American comedy vampire film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and starring Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Hilary Swank, and David Arquette. It follows a Valley Girl cheerleader named Buffy who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires. It was a moderate success at the box office, but received mixed reception from critics. The film took a different direction from that which its writer, Joss Whedon, intended. Five years later, he created the darker, and critically acclaimed, television series of the same name.
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Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield railway station, while the Collegiate Crescent Campus is about two miles away in the Broomhall Estate off Ecclesall Road in south-west Sheffield. A third campus at Brent Cross Town in the London Borough of Barnet is expected to open for the 2025-26 academic year.
The Master is a fictional character on the action-horror/fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). He is a centuries-old vampire portrayed by Mark Metcalf, determined to open the portal to hell below Sunnydale High School in the fictional town of Sunnydale where the main character Buffy Summers lives. The premise of the series is that Buffy is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman strength and other powers, which she uses to kill vampires and other evil beings. Each season of the series Buffy and the small group of family and friends who work with her, nicknamed the Scooby Gang, must defeat an evil force referred to as the Big Bad; the villain is usually trying to bring on an apocalypse. The Master is the first season's Big Bad.
Adam is a fictional character in the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Portrayed by George Hertzberg, he is a monster created from a man and the collected parts of demons, vampires, and technology: the product of a perverse experiment carried out by military scientists. The series' main character, Buffy Summers, encounters and ultimately defeats him in the fourth season. Adam is the creation of Dr. Maggie Walsh, the head of a military-like organization called The Initiative that studies how to alter the harmful behavior inherent to demons. Adam and the Initiative are the fourth season's primary antagonists, or Big Bad.
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Martin J. Goodman is an English journalist and writer.
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Matthew Rudd is an English radio personality and disc jockey. Since May 2013 he has presented the weekly Forgotten 80s radio show on Absolute 80s.
Arthur Clare Cawley was Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at the University of Leeds.
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Cynthia Bergstrom is a costume designer. She worked on the Wes Craven movie Scream and this then led to work on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer from its second season.
David Lavery was an American linguist and professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University who specialized in studying pop culture, especially television. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Chair in Film & Television at Brunel University in London. He authored or edited over 20 books on popular culture, including Conversations with Joss Whedon.
