Category Archives: zombie

Call for papers: Southwest Popular / American Culture Association – Zombie Culture

September 9th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, zombie

Call for papers: Southwest Popular / American Culture Association – Zombie Culture Make plans to join the Southwest PCA/ACA for our 35th annual conference, February 19-22, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. The conference theme this year is: Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, […]

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Monstrous Commercials

August 18th, 2013 | Posted in monsters, television, vampire, zombie
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Encounter Radio Program on Sacred Horror

July 16th, 2013 | Posted in horror, sacred, vampire, zombie

I will be one of the guests on the Encounter radio program out of Australia on the subject of “Sacred Horror: Zombie Resurrections and Vampire Souls.” The website description: From the legends of Frankenstein and Dracula to films about zombies, witches and vampires, supernatural horror has always captured the popular imagination. Fictional horror scares us […]

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Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy

July 8th, 2013 | Posted in folklore, horror, zombie

Corvis Nocturnum made a copy of his new book available to me, Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013). I am featured in an interview in the first part of the book where I discuss the religious aspects of zombies. From the publisher’s website: Go on a hunt for the facts, […]

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Kelly J. Baker: The Zombies Are Coming!

June 14th, 2013 | Posted in apocalypticism, zombie

For a while now I have been following the work of my friend and colleague, Kelly J. Baker, and she recently shared a copy of her new ebook with me on zombies and apocalyptisism. The book is titled The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture (Bondfire Books, 2013), and […]

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As Good as Dead: Emory Magazine on ‘Zombethics’ Symposium

March 2nd, 2013 | Posted in ethics, scholarship, zombie

Last year on Halloween I was a part of a symposium at Emory University on zombies and “zombethics.” I was a part of a panel discussion where I discussed zombie walks and Zombie Jesus and the implications of this for conceptions of body and mind. (Read a summary of my presentation.) You can read the […]

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The Walking Dead and Nazi Ethics

February 25th, 2013 | Posted in The Walking Dead, zombie

Last night’s episode of The Walking Dead titled “I Ain’t a Judas,” continued its incorporation of ethical themes for those interested in finding them and exploring their meanings. It surfaced in two ways in this episode, and both with reference to ethical considerations surrounding (believe it or not) Nazi Germany. In the first instance we […]

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The Undead and Theology is a Stoker Finalist/Nominee

February 23rd, 2013 | Posted in horror, Horror Writers Association, The Undead and Theology, theology, vampire, zombie

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org) is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with nearly 1000 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm). The HWA Board […]

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Zombie Documentary Airs on the Discovery Channel

December 19th, 2012 | Posted in documentary, horror, zombie

Last night a new “documentary” aired on the Discovery channel titled Zombie Apocalypse. For several years now apocalyptic dread has been in the cultural air, and this week the Mayan calendar has been a major focus of this in 2012 that has included various television treatments, but zombie apocalyptic variants are not far behind. Recently […]

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The Walking Dead Season 3: Social and Cultural Reflections

December 3rd, 2012 | Posted in The Walking Dead, zombie

Last night AMC aired the mid-season finale for The Walking Dead until the series resumes in February of 2013. In light of the break I thought I’d share some reflections that came to mind as a result of the last few episodes. One of the interesting plot elements that connect The Walking Dead to previous […]

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