Katja Aller MA

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.


Books by Katja Aller

Encountering Otherness in Video Game Cultures

Edited by E. Charlotte Stevens, Katja Aller, Monica Evans, and René Reinhold Schallegger | Forthcoming

This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2024 conference, held from 12 to 14 September 2024 at Birmingham City University, UK. The conference theme was ‘other’ in all…









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