About Presenter
Sarah Juliet Lauro, Ph.D., is associate professor at the University of Tampa. She is the author/editor of many academic works on slavery and resistance, including attention to the folkloric Caribbean zombie (see for example the article “A Zombie Manifesto” in boundary2, 2011, and the book The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, (Rutgers UP, 2015). Her more recent work is on enslaved resistance in literature, art, film, museums and monuments, and even digital media. 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). Her next monograph is devoted to commemorations of enslaved resistance; it is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.
