Overview

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communication 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 the vulnerability of the 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 labor practices.

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Author:   Andrew Whelan ,  Ruth Walker ,  Christopher Moore
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781841507149

ISBN 10:   1841507148
Pages:   401
Publication Date:   15 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

Reviews

'This volume utilizes the metaphor of the zombie to explore what it means to learn and teach within a system bereft of genuine animation, vitality and free will.' * Canadian Association of University Teachers bulletin * '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' -- Social Science Space * David Canter *

'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'  -- Social Science Space * David Canter * 'This volume utilizes the metaphor of the zombie to explore what it means to learn and teach within a system bereft of genuine animation, vitality and free will.'  * Canadian Association of University Teachers bulletin *

Author Information

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

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