Ph.D. Candidate Wins Whedon Studies Association Award

Kristopher Woofter, PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies, has won the Whedon Studies Association 2015 short form award for outstanding work in Joss Whedon research. Woofter received the award for his essay, "Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity and Reality TV Critique in THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012)," which was published in Reading Joss Whedon (2014, Syracuse University Press).

Winners of Whedon Studies Association Awards represent the highest level of scholarship and original contributions to the field of Whedon Studies. The Association's mandate includes furthering the study of the work of Joss Whedon, an American screenwriter, film and television director and producer, comic book author and composer best known as the creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dollhouse (2009–10) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–present).

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