Dr. David Lavery is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State
University (1993- ). The author of over one hundred and twenty published
essays, chapters, and reviews, he is author / co-author / editor / co-editor of
twenty three published or under contract books: Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space
Age (Southern Illinois U P, 1992); Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Wayne State U P, 1994); ÔDeny All KnowledgeÕ: Reading The X-Files (Syracuse U P, 1996); Fighting the
Forces: WhatÕs at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002); Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow (Wallflower,
Columbia U P, 2002); This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos (Wallflower,
Columbia U P, 2002); Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom (Continuum,
2006); Unlocking
the Meaning of Lost: The Unauthorized Guide (Sourcebooks, 2006, 2007); Reading Deadwood: A Western to
Swear By (Reading Contemporary Television Series, I. B. Tauris, 2006); Reading The
Sopranos: Hit
TV from HBO (Reading Contemporary Television Series, I. B. Tauris, 2006); Dear Angela:
Remembering My So Called Life (Lexington Books, 2007); Lost's Buried Treasures (Sourcebooks,
2007, 2008, 2009); Saving the World: A Guide to Heroes (ECW Press, 2007); Finding Battlestar
Galactica (Sourcebooks, 2008); Joss Whedon: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2010); On the Verge of
Tears: Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, and Literature Make Us Cry (Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2010); Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls
(Syracuse University Press, 2010); The Essential Cult Television Reader (University
Press of Kentucky, 2010); The Essential Sopranos Reader (UPK, 2011); Joss: A Creative Portrait of the Maker of
the Whedonverses (forthcoming from I. B. Tauris/St. Martin's); Owen Barfield (forthcoming
in the Western Esoteric Masters Series, North Atlantic Books); Television Art (a
textbook, forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing); Supernatural: TV Goes to Hell (forthcoming
from ECW Press), and Television Auteurs (a book and web resource, forthcoming from UPM).
The organizer of international conferences on Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, The Sopranos, and Lost, a founding co-editor of the journals Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and
Critical
Studies in Television, he has lectured around the world (Australia,
Turkey, the UK, Portugal, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany) on the subject of
television and has been a guest/source for the BBC, NPR, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, E!Oline, USA Today, The New York Times, A Folha de Sao Paulo, The Toronto Star .
. . . From
2006-2008, he taught at Brunel University in London. He can be reached at david.lavery@gmail.com. He blogs at http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/