Krista Collier-Jarvis (L'nu/Mi'kmaw) is a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. Her dissertation focuses on the fragmenting of the zombie narrative in the twenty-first century; she draws on a variety of Indigenous approaches to knowledge to better understand how the cultural work of the zombie helps us better understand living with contagion. Her other research interests include horror and the Gothic, popular culture, museology, and creative approaches to trauma.