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 high-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 Landtangen, 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

Bibliography

List of contributors

Index