The show's dense texture leaves ample room for interpretation.

         Paula Vitaris, Cinefantastique Vol. 28, #3, October 1996
 

Background:        David Lavery, an English professor at
                            Middle Tennessee State University, has put
                            together a book of academic essays about
                            THE X-FILES.
 

         If former Yale English Literature Ph.D. candidate David Duchovny had
         remained in academia, instead of dropping out to take up acting, he might
         have fallen into the strange state that grips many a scholar these days:
         obsession with watching, analyzing, and interpreting THE X-FILES.

         Fans are popping up in universities and colleges all over the map, but if there
         is one Ivory Tower that could lay claim to being the center of X-FILES-ology,
         it is Middle Tennessee State University in Murphreesboro, Tennessee. There
         you will find chairman of th