Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies

Contributors

325 Contributors Matt Bailey (matthew.bailey@mq.edu.au) is a historian working in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He researches retail and urban history as well as developments in consumer culture. Matt recently completed his dissertation on the history of major shopping centres in Australia. Melissa Beattie (tritogeneia@aol.com) holds an MA in archaeology for screen media from Bristol and a BA in classics from SUNY Buffalo. Her current projects include the cataloguing of the Ianto Memorial in Cardiff Bay, co-editing and contributing to the conference proceedings Whoniversal Appeal: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference on Doctor Who and All of Its Spin-Offs; Time, Unincorporated 3: Writings on the New Series (co-edited by Robert Smith?); and several other works relating to science fiction and classical reception. Her PhD studies, at Cardiff University in media studies, examine the connections between televisual epic, national identity and Torchwood’s fan audiences. Contributors 326 Arnold T. Blumberg (the14thdoctor@yahoo.com) is sorry if he omitted any of your favourites; there are, after all, about six hundred zombie movies out there, so it’s hard to cover everything in one chapter. He is the co-author of Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For (Telos Publishing), an exhaustive guide to zombie cinema from 1932 to 2005 in which he does cover everything . In the fall of 2010, he launched a course on zombies in popular culture at the University of Baltimore (where he earned his master’s and doctorate) that garnered international media attention. He also teaches a course in comic book literature at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. To Doctor Who fans, he’s the co-author of the Howe’s Transcendental Toybox series of Doctor Who merchandise guides from Telos, the designer of other Telos books, including The Target Book, the author of “Stolen Days” in Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life and “Mardi Gras Massacre” in Short Trips: Indefinable Magic, and the Doctor Who DVD reviewer for IGN.com. He has written numerous books and magazine articles on comics, genre film and pop culture history. He has an occasionally outof -date blog at www.atbpublishing.com. His home is not nearly as zombie proof as he’d like it to be. Daniel Changer (dan.changer@gmail.com) is a writer and political satirist living in Australia. Starting out in editorial cartoons , his later work impersonating the then prime minister, a self-described “Lazarus with a triple bypass,” provided the perfect segue into this world of the living dead. Sasha Cocarla (scocarla@gmail.com) is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her primary research interests focus on gender, sexuality, cultural analysis and theories on the abject/grotesque and the ways in which all of these topics are framed and represented within film and popular culture. She is also fascinated by the prospect of reclaiming spaces and subverting dominant ideologies in fun, playful and sometimes horrific performative ways. Tony Contento is a cell biologist and lecturer working for Iowa State University in the Department of Genetics, Cell and Contributors 327 Developmental Biology. His current research involves the study of macroautophagy in plants in response to abiotic stresses. He is also working on a study of negative gravitropism in Arabidopsis seedlings for NASA. He spends his free time in Ames, Iowa, working with the Cub Scouts of America; writing textbooks, fiction and screenplays; blogging and editing WikiAnswers; creating stained glass windows and objets d’art; and mushroom hunting with his family and their two corgis. His weapon of choice when stalking the undead is his homemade aluminum katana or a slingshot loaded with either lead shot or paintball pellets filled with a fast-acting sedative. He can be contacted in his suburban, zombie-proof compound via email at tonycontento@gmail.com. Harris DeLeeuw (Harris.DeLeeuw@btinternet.com) is the pen name of a strategic intelligence analyst with over ten years of experience in three countries: Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She has been trained in counterterrorism intelligence analysis and has led a team similar to the SIAG in an exercise testing the capability of strategic intelligence in such an event. She has also been involved in a SIAG-like team during a real emergency situation. Her chapter is an amalgamation of approaches typical of Australian, European and North...