Jesse Stommel is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and the Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Founder and Director of Hybrid Pedagogy: a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. He earned his PhD in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in digital pedagogy, open education, digital humanities, American literature, and horror film. He can be found on Twitter @Jessifer. 
” Like the titular beasts in Hitchcock’s The Birds, the zombies invade the home, the city, the culture, but even more importantly in Night, they invade the self, like a disease, an infection that takes root in us and undoes us from the inside out. In this, the story of the zombie is a story of colonization — reverse colonization to be exact, a story where the Other finally has its day.”
“We’re drawn to and fascinated by horror because the genre reminds us that we have both outsides and insides, skin and guts, eyes and gray matter, ideas and appetites.”
“We keep returning to this story about pod people because we’re terrified of the continuing erosion of our physicality in the postmodern era.”
