Full Description
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.
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
