Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy – an environment emphasizing publication, narrow research, and a vulnerable tenure system – is creating a crisis in higher education best understood through the language of zombie culture: the undead, contagion and plague, among others. Zombies in the Academy presents essays from a variety of scholars and creative writers who present an engaging and entertaining appeal for serious recognition of the conditions of contemporary humanities teaching, culture and labour practices.

Table of Contents:
Introduction  Section 1: Zombification in the corporate university  First as tragedy, then as corpse – Andrew Whelan ‘Being’ post-death at Zombie University – Rowena Harper University life, zombie states and reanimation – Rowan Wilken and Christian McCrea The living dead and the dead living: contagion and complicity in contemporary universities – Holly Randell-Moon, Sue Saltmarsh and Wendy Sutherland-Smith Zombie solidarity – Ann Deslandes and Kristian Adamson The Journal of Doctor Wallace – David Slattery Section 2: Moribund content and infectious technologies  Zombie processes and undead technologies – Christopher Moore The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish – Martin Paul Eve The intranet of the living dead: software and universities – Jonathan Paul Marshall Virtual learning environments and the zombification of learning and teaching in British universities – Nick Pearce and Elaine Tan Mapping zombies: a guide for digital pre-apocalyptic analysis and post-apocalyptic survival – Mark Graham, Taylor Shelton and Matthew Zook Infectious textbooks – Gordon S. Carlson and James J. Sosnoski Section 3: Zombie literacies and pedagogies  Undead universities, the plagiarism ‘plague’, paranoia and hypercitation – Ruth Walker EAP programmes feeding the living dead of academia: critical thinking as a global antibody – Sara Felix Zombies in the classroom: education as consumption in two novels by Joyce Carol Oates – Sherry R. Truffin Queer pedagogies in zombie times: parody, neo-liberalism and higher education – Daniel Marshall Zombies are us: the living dead as a tool for pedagogical reflection – Shaun Kimber Escaping the zombie threat by mathematics – Hans Petter Langtangen, Kent-Andre Mardal and Pål Røtnes Toward a zombie pedagogy: embodied teaching and the student 2.0 – Jesse Stommel Section 4: The post-apocalyptic terrain  ‘Sois mort et tais toi’: zombie mobs and student protests – Sarah Juliet Lauro Living-dead man’s shoes? Teaching and researching glossy topics in a harsh social and cultural context – David Beer Feverish homeless cannibal – George Pfau A report on the global Viral Z outbreak and its impact on higher education – Howard M. Gregory II and Annie Jeffrey