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John R. ziegler

John R. Ziegler is professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY, where he has been a member of the English Department since 2014. He has published on early modern English literature, including Shakespeare, an area in which continues to teach and hold a scholarly interest. Over the years, however, his scholarship has taken a turn to his current focus on Horror Studies, an area in which he has published work on zombies in film, TV, comics, and video games, as well as on the films of George A. Romero, in addition to which he serves as co-editor of the open-access journal Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture. Outside of Horror Studies, he has co-edited a volume on the animated TV series Steven Universe and co-authors reviews of indie theater in NYC for the website Thinking Theater NYC. 

BOOKS 

Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010-2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition. Lexington Books. Forthcoming November 2023. 

Jampol, Noah Simon, Cain Miller, Leah Richards, and John R. Ziegler. Not of the Living Dead: The Non-Zombie Films of George A. Romero. McFarland, 2023. 

Queering the Family in The Walking Dead. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 

EDITED VOLUMES 

Representation in Steven Universe, edited by John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 

“Wakening (Dani Goulet, 2013) - Métis-Cree Undead.” The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion, edited by Simon Bacon, Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 45-52. 

“Zombies and Intercultural Hybridity in Cargo (2017).” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, no. 7, 2021, pp. 115-146, http://www.revenantjournal.com/contents/zombies-and-intercultural-hybridity-in-cargo-2017/.

Ziegler, John R., and Edward Lehner. “Blackboard Microengagement, Formative Assessment, and Writing Achievement in First-year College Composition: A Case Study.” Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 45, no. 5, 2020, pp. 366-369.

“We Are All Made: The Socioeconomics of The Two Noble Kinsmen’s Anti-Masque Morris Dance.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, edited by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 133-152. 

“‘We can’t just ignore the rules’: Queer Heterosexualities.” The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and Comics, edited by Elizabeth L. Erwin and Dawn Keetley, McFarland, 2018, pp. 142-153. 

Lehner, Edward, Dylan Hunzeker, and John R. Ziegler. “Funding Science with Science: Cryptocurrency and Independent Academic Research Funding.” Ledger, vol. 2, 2017, pp. 65-76.

“‘The Hall must not be pestred’: Embedded Masques, Space, and Dramatized Desire.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 26, 2013, pp. 97-119. 

“Irish Mantles, English Nationalism: Apparel and National Identity in Early Modern England and Ireland.” The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 2013, pp. 73-95. 

“Heavy Metal Macbeths: Shakespeare, Metal, and (Sub)Cultural Boundaries.” Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Theory and Criticism, no. 2, 2005, pp. 63-75. 

“‘A Lingo of its Ahn’: Linguistic Control in Shadow of a Gunman.” Postcolonial Text, vol. 1, no.1, 2004.

BOOK REVIEWS AND REFERENCE ENTRIES 

“Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre.” Review of Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre, by Sarah Dustagheer and Gillian Woods. Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 33, 2020, pp. 301-304. 

Ziegler, John R., and Edward Lehner. “Knowledge Systems and the Colonial Legacies in African Science Education.” Review of Handbook of Research in Science Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Femi Otulaja and Meshach Ogunniyi. Cultural Studies in Science Education, vol. 13, no. 4, 2018, pp. 1101-1108.

“Blithe Spirit,” “Renaissance/Romantic Period,” and “Space Ghost,” reference entries for Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend, edited by June M. Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca, ABC-CLIO, 2016, pp. 34, 269-272, 297-298. 

“Dead Island,” “Dead Rising,” “Left 4 Dead,” “Resident Evil (Video Game),” and “Zombies Ate My Neighbors.” The Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth, edited by June M. Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014, pp. 69-70, 70-71, 158-159, 250-251, 342-434. 

Review of Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture: Mighty Magic, by Wes Williams. Monsters and the Monstrous vol. 3, no. 2, 2013, pp. 113-115.