Brooks Mitchell

Brooks Mitchell is a PhD candidate whose work focuses on evolving media forms and how narratives operate in & among increasingly digital, privatized, and algorithmic vectors of information. Her dissertation enquires into how video games, particularly horror games, operate in relation to 21^st-century capitalism. She also studies the new weird, horror and the gothic, monsters/monstrosity, SFF, and theories of technology, media, and communication.

Brooks is also passionate about teaching and pedagogical theory. She served as the English department’s Lead GPTI from 2024-2026, supporting pedagogical development for graduate students with teaching roles, which included planning and leading the department’s new grad student pedagogy orientations in 2024 and 2025. So far at CU she has taught classes on gothic literature, women’s literature in the US and around the world, and first-year writing & rhetoric. Before coming to CU, she taught writing & rhetoric at Colorado State University.

Brooks has an M.A. in English Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Film Studies with an English minor from Western Colorado University. She and her husband have a dog, two cats, a corn snake, and a great many houseplants.