by Bethany Benkert, Ball State University Our society is obsessed with luck. We fantasize about winning the lottery and wish each other good luck before important events. However, we are reluctant to give luck its due credit when it is at work in our own lives, at which point it should be called “privilege.”  In […]

by Taylor Baugh, Ball State University There are many forms of entertainment today that depict apocalyptic plotlines while also incorporating supernatural forces. Within our entertainment, we want to enjoy imagining the apocalypse; however, we don’t want to face the realistic nature of those apocalypses. So, we include the supernatural rather than real world problems we […]

by Audrey Bowers, Ball State University Bunkerville is a satirical, post-apocalyptic musical created by Mark Sonnenblick and Brendan Ternus. The musical was performed on Ball State’s campus in the Fall of 2017, running from October 20th – 28th. Bunkerville is about a journalist named Steve who reports the latest news of the underground bunker in […]

by Bailey Shrewsbury, Ball State University In the Digital Literature Review class, we have studied many different aspects of post-apocalyptic literature, including the way gender is depicted in post-apocalyptic media. Time and time again, we saw women being forced back into patriarchal roles after catastrophic events, and this idea was seldom challenged on the page […]

By Katie Garrett, Ball State University Good Omens is a book about the possibility of an apocalypse as foretold by Revelations (as well as Agnes Nutter, an ancient prophetic witch). Instead of being all gloomy about The End, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett come together to write a quintessential comedy featuring angels, demons, witches, an […]

by Bailey Shrewsbury, Ball State University The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a T.V. show that explores how an apocalyptic event can work as a motivator in one’s life. Kimmy Schmidt, the protagonist, was 14 when she was stuck in an underground bunker with three other women by The Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. The Reverend […]

by Abigail Gelopulos, Ball State University Realistic, strong, female characters that still maintain their femininity have been rare gems in almost every medium, but they are now slowly becoming more prevalent.  This type of female character is generally hard to find, especially in the post-apocalypse genre because, unfortunately, creators in this genre often revert to […]

by Nick Smith, Ball State University Often cited as the most beloved episode of the entire Twilight Zone series, “Time Enough at Last” can arguably be called the definitive Twilight Zone episode. This episode tells the tale of bookworm Henry Bemis, whose world as he knows it abruptly comes to an end thanks to a […]

by Olivia Hershman, Ball State University Margaret Atwood has long been an esteemed author, literary critic, and activist, popular for her books of poetry, award-winning essays, and her post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels. Perhaps her most popular novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, only continues to grow in popularity since its recent adaptation into a Hulu original series. […]

by Savana Newton, Ball State University Seattle’s been hit by a zombie invasion, and not even singer Rob Thomas was able to make it out alive; that is, if you’re a character on the CW show iZombie. With a female-zombie protagonist, we see this world through the eye of the ‘other’: we watch as Liv […]