Walking corpses are following us everywhere, on television, in film, fiction, comics and video games. Zombies have become processes in computing, banks in finance, hypothetical persons in philosophy, and more. What does it tell us about our political and social life, that we are preoccupied with survival through the zombie apocalypse, that we easily conjure fellow citizens as volitionless living dead, that we picture our institutions as hollow, ineffectual, vestigial? Inquiring about zombies will give us an academic entry point, introducing the liberal arts disciplines (especially political science), their divergent and overlapping methods, their distinctive approaches to asking and answering questions. Taking Dan Drezner’s Theories of international politics and zombies (2011) as a model, students in this class will apply the zombie imaginary or concept to a discipline-based academic investigation of their choosing and own design. Along the way to honing our skills at zombie analysis, we will sample widely from zombie-related cultural and academic productions, some well-known (e.g. AMC’s The Walking Dead), some less so (e.g. Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse).