Indeed, several academic anthologies focus on the show; other high-flown analyses appear on "Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies".
These are the kinds of questions addressed in "Written on the Body," an anthology of academic papers edited by Jane Caplan, a professor of European history at Bryn Mawr College.
Mr. Foner's anthology of academic essays strikes a balance between the personal and the abstract, and a daylong conference last month at Mr. Foner's home base, Columbia University, featured the book's contributors and was often exhilarating.
Gates is a busy cultural entrepreneur, the creator of academic departments, television shows, anthologies, encyclopedias, television documentaries.
This anthology, which is rarely scarred by academic jargon, fascinates with its detail, covering enough surface to show how much more is left to be explored.
But while they adore the boy wizard anthology, the team approaches their subject matter with reasoned academic discipline like the Harvard Divinity School members and graduates they are.
This year organizers have gathered close to 2,200 books of, and about, poetry: anthologies; chapbooks; translations; poetry-related prose (essays, memoirs, academic works, biographies); poetry objects (poetry baseball cards, a series of poetry postcards); and multimedia titles published in the 14 months since the 2009 showcase.
For example, according to an anthology from three political scientists, many writers and academics use the term "transformational" as a substitute for such terms as New Age and new paradigm.
Last spring the academic journal La corónica published a forum on Peter Cole's exceptional 2007 anthology of English translations of some of the large corpus of Hebrew poetry from Spain, The Dream of the Poem.
Compiled from works by writers, journalists and academics who visited the United States mainly in the 20th century, the anthology includes sections devoted to Arab women writers and to narratives written after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
