David Lavery

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David Lavery (August 27, 1949 – August 30, 2016) was an American linguist and professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University who specialized in studying pop culture, especially television. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Chair in Film & Television at Brunel University in London.(July 2008) [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3/Brunel%20News/BN101July08.pdf "Analysing The Sopranos"]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Brunel News. Issue no 101; accessed January 2012.{{cite book|last1=McClinton-Temple|first1=Jennifer|last2=Velie|first2=Alan|title=Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HeSvlkGFl4C&pg=PA441|access-date=August 4, 2013|date=January 1, 2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2087-4|page=441}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mtsu.edu/english/Profiles/lavery.shtml |title=English Department Profiles, MTSU |publisher=Mtsu.edu |accessdate=2012-01-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303095900/http://www.mtsu.edu/english/Profiles/lavery.shtml |archivedate=2011-03-03 }} He authored or edited over 20 books on popular culture,{{cite news|url=http://www.dnj.com/story/news/2016/08/30/mtsu-professor-and-buffy-vampire-slayer-expert-dies/89598028/|title=MTSU professor and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' expert dies|last=De Gennaro|first=Nancy|date=August 31, 2016|work=Daily News Journal|accessdate=2 September 2016}} including Conversations with Joss Whedon.{{cite book|last1=Lavery|first1=David|last2=Burkhead|first2=Cynthia|title=Joss Whedon: Conversations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPNSR9PQ76gC|access-date=August 4, 2013|year=2011|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-925-1}}

He co-produced (with George Tennyson) Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning (1994; directed and edited by Ben Levin), a documentary portrait of Owen Barfield.{{cite book|last=Barfield|first=Owen A.|title=A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Z669a_wMjIC&pg=PR10|access-date=August 4, 2013|date=January 1, 1999|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6361-3|page=10}}

Lavery was considered an expert on several television series, including The Sopranos,{{cite book|last=Lavery|first=David|title=The Essential Sopranos Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfP243s2dTkC&pg=PA317|access-date=August 4, 2013|date=July 29, 2011|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-3014-9|page=317}} Lost, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.{{cite web|url=http://slayageonline.com/pages/Slayage/news.htm |title=News |publisher=Slayageonline.com |accessdate=2013-06-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119134726/http://slayageonline.com/pages/Slayage/news.htm |archivedate=2012-11-19 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Joss%20A%20Creative%20Portrait%20of%20Joss%20Whedon%20Maker%20of%20the%20Whedonverses.aspx?menuitem=%7BB571EE45-263D-4532-A616-771699D984CA%7D|title=Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to "Marvel's The Avengers"| publisher=Ibtauris.com| accessdate=2013-06-18}}