by Hannah Partridge, Ball State University M. R. Carey’s 2014 novel The Girl With All the Gifts presents a new twist to the genre of post-apocalyptic zombie novels by making the protagonist of the story a zombie herself. Melanie, who believes she is an ordinary young girl and knows no other life than living in […]

by Savana Newton, Ball State University It’s down to survival of the fittest in AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD), where only those with the loosest morals can make it out alive. The characters in the show adhere to virtually no moral rules, either in the ways they torture/kill the walkers (zombies) and or they brutally […]

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 […]

by Megan Schillereff, Ball State University In the film 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland give us a post-zombie apocalypse London struggling for survival, complete with a small group of survivors eking out a living from the zombie-scorched earth. Not surprisingly, these survivors have to fight to evolve and adapt to […]