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Jen Cooke

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Horror film & game PhD researcher with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see. @ Newcastle University 💜

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Nov 7

Folklore, Bodies, and Video Game Horror <3 with Romancing The Gothic!

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · 10d

I don't know what it says about the PhD process when I have 5 days until submission, but I've been listening to Mad Father's "old doll (out of tune piano) slowed" on a loop for too many hours.

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 24d

📢 Tomorrow I will be speaking about fictional games and speculative literature. Join us online at 17:30 CET [email protected] @konstantinosd.bsky.social @indigitalgames.bsky.social #gamestudies #scifi

D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 26d

Reserve your free seat for our first live event of the academic year!

Game designer, professor, and author @gua-le-ni.com discusses 'What We Owe The Dead', games, and philosophy with our @konstantinosd.bsky.social (on the 16th of September).

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Sep 5

The comments section on my thesis document is growing (fast) instead of shrinking. I fear we’ll hit 400+ before my lead supervisor is done

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Aug 18

Have you got your ticket?

A live performance and a cocktail/mocktail hour with specially designed recipes also happening!

Tickets can be purchased from the Eventbrite- www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/romancing-...

You can also get tickets here - buytickets.at/romancingthe... (we pay less fees)

Romancing the Gothic presents A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference
A series of talks, events, workshops, live performances and an author round table with Nghi Vo, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Suzan Palumbo
a conference on Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th of August

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Aug 21

Huge thanks to everyone at the Otherworldly Entertainment conference (and @dreframss.bsky.social for organising!). It was an amazing time filled with an inspiring series of talks (and so many new games for my wish list!)

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Aug 18

Last week we hosted the fantastic Otherworldly Entertainment conference on horror, gothic & occult themed videogames @ucph.bsky.social. It was such an inspiring event with so many great talks incl. keynotes by @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Aug 8

For my next (and maybe last!) conference, I'm bringing a disposable camera so I can go around and explore properly

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Aug 8

Would it be weird to make my presentation all pixel-art-game themed?

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm collecting the creepiest supernatural stories listeners have heard for a podcast episode! They just need to be stories someone told YOU about somewhere that you were. I'll read out the strangest or most fascinating ones on the podcast episode. Drop yours here: forms.gle/WzXyGZLoe8iL...

Tell me about your supernatural encounters!

I'm collecting the creepiest supernatural stories listeners have heard for an August podcast episode! We're talking ghosts at your school, houses you ran past because someone said it was haunted, loca...

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Aug 2

Just witnessed a man come into the tube with a loose article and read it standing, no leaning, no hands - surfing the tube with the power of academia

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Princess Bride is playing at the outdoor cinema tomorrow and you had better believe that I will be there, quoting along.

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jul 1

Finally finished booking my flights for the Otherworldly Entertainment conference, fully thrilled to visit again!

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jun 14

The whole ‘perfection is the enemy of done’ is killing me right now

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jun 11

If anyone needs an excuse to watch more horror: boxd.it/HD5f2

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jun 5

The same magpie has been rocking up to my window in the morning for a few days now and I’m getting distinctly ‘quest giver’ vibes from it

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Jun 4

Managed to salvage my (terrible, handwritten) notes from @horrorstudies.bsky.social 2025 so that I could make a Letterboxd to-watch list

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · May 28

Very excited to see everyone at @horrorstudies.bsky.social tomorrow, always a thrill 👻

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · May 24

Can’t believe I’ve marked so many student essays about the orgasm gap that it’s boring now

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · May 15

Have somehow made the same mistake I made two years ago (at the same conference) and booked my conference accommodation near the wrong campus - at least this time it’s summer so I won’t be wandering back in the dark, small wins!

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · May 5

My horror lecture will probably be the last thing I teach this semester, I’ll try my best not to traumatise all my students before summer 😅

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · May 1

Horror Studies Now 2025 here I come (again) 😍

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Mar 31

🚨CFP - FINAL REMINDER🚨

The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference in August 2025. The CFP is still open and we have some small bursaries available. Deadline for proposals is today (31 March 2025). Please share!

Details 👇
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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting things coming soon! In between the horrors, of course

Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Feb 19

Excited to be talking all things hauntological and gaming next week at the Spectral Landscapes conference in Louisiana (having to do online for my talk unfortunately!) :)

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Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social · Feb 15

The pain and horror of manually moving an article-worth of references from one style into another. 0/10 I do not reccomend.