Brooks Mitchell

Brooks Mitchell is a PhD student whose work focuses on evolving media forms and how narratives operate in & among increasingly digital, privatized, and algorithmic vectors of information. Her current work enquires into how video games, particularly horror games, function as “texts” in relation to political subjectivity of the 21^stcentury. She also studies the new weird, horror and the gothic, the fantastic in literature, monsters/monstrosity, and theories of technology & media.

Brooks is also passionate about teaching and pedagogical theory. She has served as the English department’s Lead Graduate Part-Time Instructor since 2024, supporting pedagogical development for graduate students with teaching roles. 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 Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Film Studies with a minor in English from Western Colorado University. She and her husband have a dog, two cats, a corn snake, and a great many houseplants.