Fellow 2025-2026 Sarah Juliet Lauro
Sarah Juliet Lauro is an associate professor in the department of English and Writing at the University of Tampa.
Although she has published in other areas, she is mostly known for her work on the zombie: she is the co-author of A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism (Boundary 2, Spring 2008); co-editor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Posthuman (Fordham UP, 2011); author of the monograph The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (Rutgers UP, 2015); and editor of Zombie Theory: A Reader (U Minnesota, 2018). Her recent work turned from zombies as a figuration of slavery and slave revolt, which was a central feature of the myth’s development, to commemorations of slave rebellion in literature, art, film, and videogames. On this topic she published Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and articles in TDR: The Drama Review (2021); History of the Present (2020); and archipelagoes (2017; 2023). A scholarly monograph in this area, Monumental: Commemorations of Enslaved Resistance, is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press and will be forthcoming. This work was supported by a George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon fellowship and two Fulbright fellowships. Dr. Lauro will be a fellow at Heidelberg University in Germany in the academic year 2025–2026, where she will be working on a slim volume about vampires, zombies, and the climate crisis. She is the editor of the journal Studies in the Fantastic.