buffy the... slayer of varney the vampire?

One of my favorite teachers ever, Lillie Craton, is pondering working Buffy into her fall Romanticism course. Of course, it is essential this must happen; also, due to the various English majors lying strewn about this place, we all should be able to come up with some good argument tying the two together.

I'm thinking something along the gothic lines, possibly concepts of Otherness, even though I know that's sort of a lot of postcolonial talk. Are there any illustrations of the sublime in Buffy? Definitely some very extreme settings and values, and seriously, let's discuss the concept of the grotesque in the show. I think some of that would fit in Buffy's choices in lovers- vampires with bloody pasts would count as the Othered Grotesque or something, right?

Not to mention Angel's guilt complexes about everything he's done is pretty Byronic, a bit of the Manfred going on there.

Thoughts?