Katja Aller is a comparative media scholar and a PhD candidate at Cologne Game Lab (Technical University of Cologne) and a.r.t.e.s graduate school (University of Cologne). She currently works as a teaching assistant for Media and Game Studies and as the program manager for the interdisciplinary MA Game Development and Research at Cologne Game Lab. She holds a joint master’s degree in German and Comparative Literature from both Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany) and St Andrews University (Scotland). Her research interests include theory of space, (transmedia) narratology, object/thing studies, and horror in both games and films.