pZombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film iWhite Zombiei and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's iThe Night of the Living Deadi almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie's ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties--ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism--has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship. ppZombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. iZombie Theory icollects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zom