June Michele Pulliam - Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth

At the tender age of eight, June Michele Pulliam was permitted to stay up by herself and watch George Romeros Night of the Living Dead. She was so traumatized by the experience that she now teaches courses on horror fiction at Louisiana State University. Additionally, Pulliam has authored (with Anthony Fonseca) three volumes of Hooked on Horror and Read On... Horror, as well as several articles about zombies, Stephenie Meyers Twilight Saga, Roald Dahl and teen female lycanthropes in young adult fiction. She is also the editor of Dead Reckonings: A Review Magazine for the Horror Field. She makes her home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a creaky old house with several feline familiars who variously thwart and assist her writing deadlines.

Anthony J. (Tony) Fonseca is the library director of Alumnae Library, Elms College, Massachusetts. He has authored (with June Michele Pulliam) three volumes of Hooked on Horror and Read On... Horror, and is coeditor of Dead Reckonings: A Review Magazine for the Horror Field. He has also published articles/chapters on doppelgngers, psychics, horror readership, vampire music, female vampires in film, bhangra-beat music, patron-driven acquisitions, and information literacy. He is currently working on articles on horror film music, Robert Aickman, and The Boondocks.

Alicia Ahlvers is currently a Kansas City Public Library branch manager. She has served on the American Library Associations (ALAs) RUSA CODES Notable Books Council and the ALA RUSA CODES Reading List Book Award committee where she helped select the best books in various genres. Alicia also works at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, as a weekend reference librarian where, during finals week, she frequently encounters the walking dead. She almost appeared in a budget zombie film, but her lack of dead white eyes thwarted her bid for a Hollywood zombie career. When not working, she can be found on Twitter perfecting her Zombie Apocalypse Plan with her friends and followers.

Titus Belgard has degrees in history and English from Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, and holds an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has been on staff of the James C. Bolton Library at LSU-Alexandria since 2004. Prior to that, he was a clerk, curator, and manager of the Marksville State Historic Site (a 2,000-year-old Native American mound museum). Belgard lives in Pineville, Louisiana, where he is an active member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. He has had several book reviews published in Louisiana Libraries and Codex.

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of American literature and film studies at Southern Utah University. He has published a variety of articles on Gothic literature, horror cinema, and science fiction texts, including Night of the Living Dead, Fight Club, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawn of the Dead, Zombieland, The Birds, and The Walking Dead. His first book, American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture, explores the cultural history of the zombie figure and is available from McFarland Publishers.

Richard Bleiler is the humanities librarian at the University of Connecticuts Homer Babbidge Library.

John Edgar Browning is Arthur A. Schomburg Fellow and PhD student (American Studies) in the Department of Transnational Studies and adjunct faculty member in the Department of English at SUNY-Buffalo. He has contracted or co-written a number of books and articles on horror cinema, Dracula, vampires, and Bram Stoker, most recently with Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (with Caroline J. S. Picart) and The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker, both from Palgrave Macmillan.

Robert Butterfield is a musician and music instructor. His longtime interest in the literary arts resulted in his going back to school late in life and receiving a degree in creative writing from Louisiana State University. While there, he had the opportunity to write reviews for Necropsy, an online quarterly review of horror literature. He is the author of a self-published novel, Van Ark.

Deborah G. Christie earned her PhD from Fordham University in 2005 and is currently an English Professor with E.C.P.I. University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is coeditor of The Journal of Supernatural Studies and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Monsters and the Monstrous. In her research and writing, she takes a cultural studies approach to constructions of monstrosity and its associated tropes of exclusion and suppression. Forthcoming projects include articles on The Walking Dead, Nosferatu, Vampire Diaries, and a book project titled Death Is Not the End: How the Un-Dead Complicate Nature and Humanist Philosophy.

Margo Collins is a visiting assistant professor of English at DeVry University. She holds a PhD in Eighteenth-Century British literature from the University of North Texas and in recent years has focused on Gothic literature and popular culture.

L. Andrew Cooper teaches film at the University of Louisville. His first book, Gothic Realities (2010), traces links between horror fiction and horrific realities from the 18th century forward. His second, Dario Argento (2012), treats the maestros films as rhetorical challenges to cinematic norms. Cooper also coedited the popular college textbook Monsters and wrote the novels Burning the Middle Ground (2012), about supernatural mind control in the South, and Descending Lines (2013), in which a couple uses ghastly means to save their child. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2005.

David E. Cowen is a sixth-generation Texan and a resident of Houston and a licensed trial attorney. David is the author of a book of poetry, Sixth and Adams (2001), and has published in online and hard copy journals in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. One of his poems was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Company Radios Outfront program 9/11 tribute. His recent publications include an essay in This I Believe: On Motherhood (2012) published by the This I Believe Foundation; a book review in CineAction Magazine, Canadas leading film magazine; and a book review to be published in Screem Magazines October 2013 edition. Davids short story Goth Thing is in the fifth volume of the award-winning anthology series Exotic Gothic, edited by Danel Olson, published by PS Publishing.

Braden Dauzat is an undergraduate English student at Louisiana State University. Born in Texas, he quickly traded in his cowboy boots for Mardi Gras beads and Voodoo. With a love of all things frightful and fantastic, starting at an early age, he has consistently embarrassed and humiliated his family and friends with his passion for the two. This includes cosplay, taking Halloween a little too seriously, loud and heated debates in inappropriate areas, and the general attitude that there is no such thing as discussing the fantastic and grotesque too much.

Kevin Dole once entertained fantasies of becoming a distinguished scholar of supernatural horror fiction. Lacking the masochistic rigor necessary for grad school, he became instead a regular guy who happens to know a lot about Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Ligotti, and zombies. He lives in the eerie and immanent fog of northern California.