Category Archives: zombie

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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Zombies with a Romantic Twist: Trailer for Warm Bodies

November 22nd, 2012 | Posted in zombie

Romance in connection with monsters has usually been reserved for the vampire, and the occasional monster who has the misfortune of falling in love with a human female as in King Kong or Creature from the Black Lagoon. But the trailer for a new film, Warm Bodies, shows that the zombie is now being drawn […]

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Emory University, Zombies, and the Significance of Nihilistic Horror

November 4th, 2012 | Posted in ethics, horror, Matt Cardin, nihilism, W. Scott Poole, zombie

On Halloween I had the opportunity to be a part of a panel on religion and zombies at Emory University’s symposium on Zombies and Zombethics. This session was sold out, and filled with lots of interested listeners. My colleague and friend Scott Poole, author of Monsters in America, was one of my fellow panelists, and […]

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Zombie PSA on CPR

October 6th, 2012 | Posted in zombie
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Emory Symposium on Zombies and ‘Zombethics’

September 29th, 2012 | Posted in conference, ethics, religion, zombie

I will be sitting on a panel and contributing to the topic via religion and zombies. For further background see my previous post.

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Emory University Conference on Neuroscience, Zombies, and ‘Zombethics’

August 31st, 2012 | Posted in conference, ethics, The Walking Dead, zombie

I am amazed at the opportunities and invitations that have come my way since I extended my academic work into the area of religion and popular culture. This has included writing for publications like Religion Dispatches, where among other things I have written on the intersection between zombies in popular culture and theology. In that […]

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The Zombie Mob Podcast: Discussion of [REC]

August 28th, 2012 | Posted in horror, podcast, zombie

Recently, I was a guest on The Zombie Mob podcast along with Kim Paffenroth, author of many books including Gospel of the Living Dead, and Scott Poole, author of Satan in America and Monsters in America, and all of us contributors to the forthcoming The Undead and Theology. Our host was Darryl Pierce. In the […]

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Call for Papers: The Walking Dead and the Problem of Meaning in the New Millennium of the Dead

March 31st, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, The Walking Dead, zombie

Dawn Keetley of Lehigh University has issued a call for papers through Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. It is for an anthology volume titled “Dead Inside: The Walking Dead and the Problem of Meaning in the New Millennium of the Dead.” Keetley is seeking essays for a scholarly collection that will explore the complexities […]

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April Launch of “AMC The Walking Dead Social Game”

March 12th, 2012 | Posted in The Walking Dead, video games, zombie

I will be a periodic contributor to a website aimed at fans of The Walking Dead called The Talking Walking Dead. My first post is a news item that discusses the forthcoming “AMC The Walking Dead Social Game” on Facebook. That news item can be found here.

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Incognitum Hactenus – Open Call for Submission – Living On: Zombies

March 12th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, zombie

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSION Living On: Zombies Incognitum Hactenus is re-thinking the zombie. The release of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968 solidified our cultural awareness of what a zombie was and marked the beginning of the zombie film as a staple of Hollywood storytelling. Now a (regenerative) genre unto itself, […]

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