Kelly is the author of Gospel According to the Klan The KKK s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915 1930, The Zombies Are Coming The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture, Grace Period A Memoir in Pieces, and Sexism Ed Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.She s also the editor of Women in Higher Education, a feminist print monthly, and a freelance writer with a religious studies PhD who covers religion, higher education, gender, labor, motherhood, and popular culture She s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Killing the Buddha, The Rumpus, Sacred Matters, Chronicle Vitae, Religion Politics, Washington Post, and Brain, Child When she s not writing assignments or wrangling two children, she s writing a cultural history of zombie apocalypses and making her way toward a collection of essays about endings and other disasters.