Brendan Riley

Brendan Riley is an associate professor of English at Columbia College Chicago, where he has been teaching, among other things, a January-session course called “Zombies in Popular Media” since 2007. He has published essays on detectives, comics, writing, and monster movies, and will likely fare poorly in the zombie apocalypse. Online at curragh-labs.org.

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