Jon Garrad PhD Candidate Manchester Metropolitan University Commons username: @jongarrad Twitter handle: propergoffic LinkedIn URL: jongarrad Following 0 members ViewActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 6Following 0Followers 2Groups 4DiscussionsDocsAcademic InterestsAnalog game studiesAudiovisual narrativesDeath in literatureE. R. EddisonGame studiesGamingGhosts in literatureGothicGothic literatureGothsLudologyMythopoeiaNarrative designNarratologyPhilosophy of deathThanatologyVampire fictionCommons GroupsHCGame StudiesGlobal Gaming CulturesGothicistsHorrorRecent Commons Activity deposited Fluff Ain’t Rules: absence,… in the group Gothicists deposited Fluff Ain’t Rules: absence,… in the group Game Studies joined the group Horror joined the group Global Gaming Cultures joined the group Game StudiesEducationPhD – Manchester Metropolitan University, expected completion 2024PGCE (DTLLS) – University of Plymouth, 2009MA English & American Studies – University of Manchester, 2008BA English & Creative and Professional Writing – University of Wolverhampton, 2007Work Shared in COREConference papersFluff Ain’t Rules: absence, presence and haunting in RPG designBleeding Genre Dry: archetypes, stereotypes, and White Wolf’s Vampire gamesCreature, Monster, Nameless, Created: Frankenstein transformed in role playing gamesA Necessary Evil: Necromancy and Christian DeathThe Horror of Bradensbrook: Gothic coordinates in World of WarcraftEndless Nineties: the perennial aesthetic of ‘grimdark’ gamesOther PublicationsReviews: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Life Is Strange: Before The Storm in Vector, Best of 2017 special (British Science Fiction Association)‘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:‘The evolving genre of the Vampire RPGs’ (chapter for Palgrave Gothic Handbook, Volume 3; 2019)‘Gamifying Fictions of Defeat’ (paper for Studies on Gothic Fiction, special Lovecraft edition)‘Sticky, Crunchy, Fluffy, Slippery: a model for dissonance and harmony in tabletop RPGs’ (with Dr. Lucy Baker, Griffith University)Upcoming Talks and ConferencesManchester Gothic Festival, 2019 (TBC)MembershipsCurrent:International Gothic Association Former:Mythopoeic SocietyNational Association for the Teaching of EnglishNational Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women TeachersUniversities and Colleges Union
