Jon Garrad Independent Scholar Commons username: @jongarrad LinkedIn URL: jongarrad Following 0 members ViewActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 3Following 0Followers 1Groups 1DiscussionsDocsAcademic InterestsAnalog game studiesAudiovisual narrativesDeath in literatureE. R. EddisonGame studiesGamingGhosts in literatureGothicGothic literatureGothsLudologyMythopoeiaNarrative designNarratologyPhilosophy of deathThanatologyVampire fictionCommons GroupsHCGothicistsRecent Commons Activity deposited A Necessary Evil: Necromancy … joined the group GothicistsEducationPGCE (DTLLS) – University of Plymouth, 2009MA English & American Studies – University of Manchester, 2008BA English & Creative and Professional Writing – University of Wolverhampton, 2007Work Shared in COREConference papersA Necessary Evil: Necromancy and Christian DeathThe Horror of Bradensbrook: Gothic coordinates in World of WarcraftEndless Nineties: the perennial aesthetic of ‘grimdark’ gamesOther Publications‘The Conqueror Worm: Eddison, Modernism, and the War to End All Wars’, in Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I (ed. Janet Brennan Croft). Mythopoeic Press: 2014.Review: ‘Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North’, Mythlore 34.1Review: ‘The Riddles of The Hobbit‘, Mythlore 32.2ProjectsCurrently working on:‘Gothic Role Playing Games’ (chapter for Palgrave Gothic Handbook, Volume 3; 2019)‘Gamifying Fictions of Defeat’ (paper for Studies on Gothic Fiction, special Lovecraft edition)MembershipsCurrent:International Gothic Association Former:Mythopoeic SocietyNational Association for the Teaching of EnglishNational Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women TeachersUniversities and Colleges Union
