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A specter is haunting the academy: the figure of the ghostly, the phantasmic, and the unquiet dead. Over the last fifteen years, a large and rapidly growing number of works in diverse disciplines-sociology, 1 psychoanalysis, 2 literary criticism, 3 folklore, 4 cultural studies, 5 postcolonial studies, 6 race and gender studies, 7 geography, 8 media studies, and communication and rhetoric 9 -have sought to reinterpret stories of haunting as the return of traumatic memory. Within such work, ghosts manifest not as terrifying revenants, but as welcome, if disquieting spurs to consciousness and calls for political action.Most immediately, this interdisciplinary interest in ghosts was sparked by Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx (1993), a curious book that combines a profession of faith (i.e., the messianic spirit of Marxism still holds promise, 1

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