MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Zombie Studies Gain Ground on College Campuses
By EmmaZahn on Tue, 03/04/2014 - 4:30pm |
Just as zombies—those mythical revived corpses hungry for living human flesh and gray matter—have infiltrated pop culture, they have also gotten their hands on our brainiest reserves: the academy. ... an advancing horde of scholars ... compelled by the cultural history and metaphor of the undead, are teaching and conducting research in disciplines from economics to religion to medicine.
The last five years have seen 20 new scholarly books with "zombie" in the title or topic category, according to Baker & Taylor, a distributor of academic and other books; in the 10 prior years, there were 10. JSTOR, an online archive of about 2,000 academic journals, says the journals have run 39 articles invoking the undead since 2005, versus seven in the preceding 10 years.
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