Zombies in the Academy

Andrew Whelan teaches sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Ruth Walker teaches academic writing at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Christopher Moore is a lecturer in media communication at Deakin University, Australia.

• Introduction Section 1: Zombification in the corporate university First as tragedy, then as corpse – Andrew Whelan‘Being’ post-death at Zombie University – Rowena HarperUniversity life, zombie states and reanimation – Rowan Wilken and Christian McCreaThe living dead and the dead living: contagion and complicity in contemporary universities – Holly Randell-Moon, Sue Saltmarsh and Wendy Sutherland-SmithZombie solidarity – Ann Deslandes and Kristian AdamsonThe Journal of Doctor Wallace – David SlatterySection 2: Moribund content and infectious technologies Zombie processes and undead technologies – Christopher MooreThe botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish – Martin Paul EveThe intranet of the living dead: software and universities – Jonathan Paul MarshallVirtual learning environments and the zombification of learning and teaching in British universities – Nick Pearce and Elaine TanMapping zombies: a guide for digital pre-apocalyptic analysis and post-apocalyptic survival – Mark Graham, Taylor Shelton and Matthew ZookInfectious textbooks – Gordon S. Carlson and James J. SosnoskiSection 3: Zombie literacies and pedagogies Undead universities, the plagiarism ‘plague’, paranoia and hypercitation – Ruth WalkerEAP programmes feeding the living dead of academia: critical thinking as a global antibody – Sara FelixZombies in the classroom: education as consumption in two novels by Joyce Carol Oates – Sherry R. TruffinQueer pedagogies in zombie times: parody, neo-liberalism and higher education – Daniel MarshallZombies are us: the living dead as a tool for pedagogical reflection – Shaun KimberEscaping the zombie threat by mathematics – Hans Petter Langtangen, Kent-Andre Mardal and Pål RøtnesToward a zombie pedagogy: embodied teaching and the student 2.0 – Jesse StommelSection 4: The post-apocalyptic terrain ‘Sois mort et tais toi’: zombie mobs and student protests – Sarah Juliet LauroLiving-dead man’s shoes? Teaching and researching glossy topics in a harsh social and cultural context – David BeerFeverish homeless cannibal – George PfauA 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'