Inclou bibliografia (p. 333-366) i índex (p. 379-388)

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 Christina 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 theme of zombies is topical and provocative, with the potential to appeal to a wide range of readers. This book is an engaging call for recognition of the conditions of contemporary humanities research, teaching, and cultural and labour practices. The zombie trope offers an unusual perspective into discussions about the current crises in higher education, and the proposed structure of the book allows for the 3 editors to open up interdisciplinary discussion (with their 3 sections covering corporatisation & zombification, digital media & moribund content distribution, and zombie literacies & pedagogies). "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.