Dr. David Lavery Professor of English & Popular Culture Middle Tennessee State University

Dr. David Lavery Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. Detroit, Wayne State U P, Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files (with Angela Hague and Marla Cartwright). Syracuse: Syracuse U P; London: Faber and Faber, Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (edited with Rhonda Wilcox). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. New York: Columbia U P; London: Wallflower Press, Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow (with Angela Hague). New York: Columbia U P; London: Wallflower Books, Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By. London: I. B. Tauris, Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO. London: I. B. Tauris, Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Unlocking Lost: An Unauthorized Guide (with Lynnette Porter). Napierville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2006, Co-authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television’s Greatest Sitcom (with Sarah Lewis Dunne). New York: Continuum, Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Saving the World: A Guide to Heroes (with Lynnette Porter and Hillary Robson). Toronto: ECW Press, Co-authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Finding Battlestar Galactica: An Unauthorized Guide (with Lynnette Porter and Hillary Robson). Napierville, IL: Sourcebooks, Co-authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Lost’s Buried Treasures: Everything Lost Fans Need to Know (with Lynnette Porter and Hillary Robson). Napierville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007, 2008, Co-authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life (edited with Michele Byers). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery The Essential Cult TV Reader (University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery On the Verge of Tears: Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, and Literature Make Us Cry. Edited Michele Byers and David Lavery (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Ed. David Scott Diffrient, with David Lavery(The Television Series, Syracuse University Press, 2010). Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Joss Whedon: Conversations. Ed. David Lavery and Cynthia Burkhead (Television Conversations, University Press of Mississippi, 2011). Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, a collection of essays edited by Stacey Abbott and David Lavery (ECW Press, 2011).

Dr. David Lavery The Essential Sopranos Reader, with Doug Howard & Paul Levinson (U P Kentucky, 2011). Co-Edited Book

Dr. David Lavery Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Avengers (forthcoming, Fall 2012 from I. B. Tauris) Authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Television Art, a textbook (under contract with Blackwell Publishing). Authored Book

Dr. David Lavery Television Auteurs. A book and web resource, edited by David Lavery (under contract with the University Press of Mississippi).

Dr. David Lavery  Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Shows, co-edited with David Bianculli (under contract with Syracuse University Press)

Dr. David Lavery Unlocking Lost and Lost’s Buried Treasures (in Portuguese, published in Brazil) Co-authored Book

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Dr. David Lavery Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning, co-produced and written with G. B. Tennyson, UCLA; Ben Levin, University of North Texas, director and editor (1994). Winner of the Bronze Award for Independent Video at Worldfest Houston (1996); Honorable Mention recipient, Columbus International Film and Video Festival (1996). Screened at Tennessee Philological Association (1996); Owen Barfield Centenary (1998); Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2000), Cornerstone Arts Festival (2003). Films

Dr. David Lavery Books Contributed To

Dr. David Lavery Books Contributed To

Dr. David Lavery  A book on Owen Barfield for the Western Esoteric Masters series (North Atlantic Books).  “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Modern American Drama on Screen, ed. Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer, forthcoming from Cambridge U P). Work in Progress

Dr. David Lavery Founding Co-Editor, Co-Editor (2001- ) Journals

Dr. David Lavery Founding Co-Editor Journals

Dr. David Lavery Founding Co-Editor Journals

Dr. David Lavery Series Editor Television Conversations University Press of Mississippi (2010- )

Dr. David Lavery Conferences Convened

Dr. David Lavery Conferences Convened An international Conference on LOST, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, October 2011.

Dr. David Lavery Five Slayage Conferences Conferences Convened

Dr. David Lavery “The Imagination will be Televised: Showrunning and the Re-animation of Authorship in 21 st Century American Television.” Keynote, REMEDIATE! Neue Langform-Narrative und Autorschaft, veränderte Rezeptionsformen und Distributionsmedien bei TV-Serienformaten, Merz Academy, Stuttgart (January 2010). “Keeping the Faith: Joss Whedon’s ‘Religion in Narrative’ and Contemporary Television.” Keynote, Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque, Istanbul, Turkey (October 2007). "’Holy Fucking Shit’: Profanation, Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report.” Keynote, Giving and Taking Offence, University of Aveiro, Portugal (June 2007). “’I Only Had a Week’: TV Creativity and Quality Television.” Invited Keynote Address: Contemporary American Quality Television: An International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (March 2004). “’I wrote my thesis on you!’ Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult.” Keynote address, Sonics/Synergies: Creative Cultures. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (July 2003). “Dropping the Body: The X-Files, Popular Culture, and Exosomatic Evolution.” “Myths of Creativity: Between Innovation and Hubris” symposium, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (November 2001). Keynotes

Dr. David Lavery television studies film studies cult television and film the creative process popular culture science fiction the grotesque the interrelations of the arts literary theory and criticism poetry and poetics Major Areas of Teaching and Scholarship

Dr. David Lavery American Quality Television Buffy the Vampire Slayer Contemporary British Film (a course offered in London Summer 1992) Contemporary Cinema (graduate course) Cult Television (graduate module) Deadwood and The Sopranos (graduate seminar) Film and Television Genres (graduate course) Film History Film History Online Film Studies (Graduate Course) Film Theory and Criticism (honors section) Films of Stanley Kubrick Film and Television Courses Taught

Dr. David Lavery Gangster Film (graduate/undergraduate course) Introduction to Film Ireland and Scotland at the Movies (taught on location in the British Isles, Summer 1996) Joss Whedon: Television Auteur (graduate course) Literature and Film Lost (graduate course) Media Theory and Criticism (graduate course) Popular Literature of the 20th Century: The Movies (graduate course) Science Fiction Film (graduate course) Television and Culture Film and Television Courses Taught

Dr. David Lavery In recent years, one of my great pleasures has been helping to further the work of others. Three examples: A colleague at another university had developed a book on Northern Exposure but not succeeded in securing a publisher. I was able to not only enhance the quality (and quantity) of the essays contributed but find a publisher—Critical Studies in Television— which brought it out as a special issue. Furthering the Work of Others

Dr. David Lavery Furthering the Work of Others

Dr. David Lavery On another occasion I was able to find a publisher for an in-development book on the films of the Coen Brothers for which I was a contributor. The collection would appear as a special issue of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. Furthering the Work of Others

Dr. David Lavery Furthering the Work of Others

Dr. David Lavery When I learned that a contributor to three of my books was developing a book on Dexter, I was able through my contacts alone to secure contributions to the book from television scholars in four countries. The book has now been published by I. B. Tauris. Furthering the Work of Others

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