Now available from Indiana University Press: The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center Edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe "An intelligent and highly engaging collection that will appeal to legions of zombie fans, to students in the humanities, and to scholars working in fields that have already been affected by or are now preparing for the zombie apocalypse. It blends entertaining, illuminating, and accessible readings of zombies and zombie culture with unique interventions made from authoritative positions of expertise." ‹Julian Murphet, author of Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society¹s fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more disturbing work. They exhume "zombie theory" and decaying historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie culture today ³lives² in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde‹and is often just as violent. The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory 544 pp., 53 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-01382-8 $75.00 paper 978-0-253-01387-3 $26.00 ebook 978-0-253-01392-7 $25.99 Download a free excerpt from the book: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/zombie More information at: Book page: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/807285 Podcast: http://bit.ly/1vpRGHT Tumblr: http://ayearswork.tumblr.com/ For Instructors: If you are interested in adopting this book for course use, please see our exam copy policy: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/link/examcopy Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org