Kyle Bishop is Professor of English at Southern Utah University. He is the author of How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century and American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture. He also edits the series Contributions to Zombie Studies for McFarland.

Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich is Assistant Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. He has written about “Zombie Riots and the Real of Capital.”

Johannes Fehrle is a member of the research group “BioMaterialities” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of “‘Zombies Don’t Recognize Borders’: Capitalism, Ecology, and Mobility in the Zombie Outbreak Narrative.”

Lea Espinoza Garrido is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. She has written about migration, borders, states of exception, and the undead.

Scott Eric Hamilton is Lecturer at the English Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. With Conor Heffernan he is co-editor of Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures and serves on the committee of the Zombie Studies Network.

Conor Heffernan is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University. With Scott Eric Hamilton he is co-editor of Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures and serves on the committee of the Zombie Studies Network.

Anya Heise-von-der-Lippe is Assistant Lecturer in Anglophone Literary Cultures and Global South Studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her publications include the monograph Monstrous Textualities and an article on “Posthuman Zombie Narratives.”

Sami Khatib is Visiting Professor for the Science of Art and Media Philosophy at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. He has published on the aesthetics of real abstraction and “The Drive of Capital: Of Monsters, Vampires and Zombies.”

Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Fellow for Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and Literary Studies Education at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is the author of Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature.

Sarah Juliet Lauro is Associate Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. Her numerous publications on zombies include The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Revolt, and the “Zombie Manifesto” (co-authored with Karen Embry). She is also the editor of Zombie Theory: A Reader.

Marlon Lieber is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is the author of Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels and “The Living Dead in the Long Downturn.”

Roger Luckhurst holds the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck University of London. He has published widely on the Gothic and is the author of Zombies: A Cultural History.

Lawrence May is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Digital Zombies, Undead Stories: Narrative Emergence and Videogames.

Cory Rushton is Associate Professor at the English Department at St. Francis Xavier University. With Christopher M. Moreman he is co-editor of Zombies are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead and Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Carribean Tradition.

Stephen Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and was a member of the Warwick Research Collective. He is co-editors (with Mark Storey) of The Cambridge Companion to American Horror and (with Giulia Champion and Roxanne Douglas) of Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media.

Sandra Aline Wagner is an independent researcher in Gothic and Transmedia Studies, who works as a cultural journalist. She received her PhD for a study of German monster mash-up novels and has written about Romantic Zombies and Millenial Identity.