Zombies in the Academy

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

'The mindless focus on centres of learning as corporate entities, in which publication for its own sake, tenuous tenure and narrow research is the order of the day, is producing an intellectually dead environment in which bureaucratic zombies are sucking the life out of teaching and learning'