“What Would Buffy Do?”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Storyteller” and the Hagiographic Genre

By turning to hagiography to read Buffy, the overlaps between two seemingly disparate topics demonstrates how they can mutually inform one another by exploring the perpetuation of themes such as pain, sacrifice, and sanctity. In fact, the reading of popular medieval “superheroes” alongside modern media, and vice-versa, highlights surprising continuities between these two periods in terms of perception, self-hood, and purpose.