Three Australian professors seek paper proposals for a book about “zombie academics.” Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore, and Ruth Walker think a “culture of the undead” rules the world of higher education. To illustrate, they linked to the video embedded above on their Zombies in the Academy website.
The forthcoming collection will be titled Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education. Proposals will be accepted until December 15th. The New York Times has more: “By [the editors’] measure the undead include ‘a listless population of academics, managers, administrators and students, all shuffling to the beat of the corporatist drum.'”
Intellect Press UK will publish the book, and a tentative release date has been set for 2012. According to the book description on their blog site, the book will center around three sections: “1. corporatization, bureaucratization, and zombification of higher education; 2. technology, digital media and moribund content distribution infecting the university; 3. zombie literacies and living dead pedagogies.” (Via The Huffington Post)