Zombies and the American Gothic: An Interview with Kyle William Bishop

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 Kyle William Bishop is Professor of English at Southern Utah University, where he has been teaching since 2000. He teaches courses about American literature and culture, fantasy and horror literature, film studies, and English composition. Kyle Bishop is the author of American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture (McFarland, 2010) and his second volume on the zombie is called How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century (McFarland, 2015). He is also the co-editor of the book The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie (McFarland, 2017).