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Zombies in the Academy
Living Death in Higher Education
Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields including cultural and communications studies sociology film studies and education to give a critical account of the political cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy – an environment emphasizing publication narrow research and a vulnerable tenure system – is creating a crisis in higher education best understood through the language of zombie culture: the undead contagion and plague among others. Zombies in the Academy presents essays from a variety of scholars and creative writers who present an engaging and entertaining appeal for serious recognition of the conditions of contemporary humanities teaching culture and labour practices.
Zapolska's Women
Three Plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man, and Miss Maliczewska
Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) was one of the foremost modernist Polish playwrights. Zapolska’s Women features three of her performance texts that focus on the economic and social pressures faced by women in partitioned Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to the plays Zapolska’s Women provides a detailed biography of Zapolska relating her life story to the themes of each play; an analysis of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditions; and background on the social and historical conditions within Poland during the time the plays were written and originally performed. This informative collection of groundbreaking plays will introduce an English-speaking audience to Zapolska’s important work.