Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg
Doctor of the Dead
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DR. ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG is the “Doctor of the Dead,” a world-renowned zombie scholar and expert, and co-author of Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For (one of the first exhaustive guides to zombie cinema that helped to define the parameters of what qualifies as a zombie movie). Blumberg appears in the feature documentaries Doc of the Dead, The Walkers Among Us, and The 50 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen, and teaches a course in “Zombies in Popular Media” at the University of Baltimore that garnered worldwide press coverage and offers a fun way to teach students to think more deeply and critically about the media they consume. He has contributed chapters to Triumph of the Walking Dead; Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies; The Undead and Theology, and the upcoming The Written Dead. He’s working on an expanded, updated edition of Zombiemania titled Zombiemania Rises: 100 Movies to Die For that will catalogue over 1,400 films. His lecture, “Zombies: Monsters with Meaning,” has been presented at various conventions and symposia, and his Walking Dead and zombie-focused podcast Doctor of the Dead (doctorofthedead.com & https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-dead-walking-dead-z/id847759735?mt=2), is available via iTunes and other podcast apps. He can be found on Twitter at @DoctoroftheDead.