Astrid Ensslin

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Astrid Christina Ensslin
Born
Stuttgart, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Heidelberg
Scientific career
FieldsEnglish literature, Digital literature

Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German digital humanities scholar and games researcher, and Professor of Media and Digital Communications at the University of Alberta[1] known for her work in digital fictions.

Biography[]

Ensslin received her BMus in violin performance and pedagogy from the Stuttgart Academy of Music and Performing Arts in 1996 and a BA/MA in English and German from the University of Tübingen in 2002. In 2006 she completed her PhD on digital literature and hypertexts at Heidelberg University, where it was short-listed for the Ruprecht-Karl's Award for outstanding scholarly and scientific research. In May 2012 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and since 2016 she is Professor of Media and Digital Communication at University of Alberta.[2]

Ensslin is the founding and principal editor of the journal Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds,[3] a review board member of the journal Game Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of Discourse, Context & Media and Digital Culture & Society. Since 2017, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization in October 2017.[1] In September 2018, she will give the keynote lecturer at the Swansea University VR/AR conference.[4]

Books[]

  • 2018. Small Screen Fictions (Paradoxa).
  • 2014. Literary Gaming (MIT Press).[5]
  • 2013. Analyzing Digital Fiction (Routledge).
  • 2011. The Language of Gaming (Palgrave).
  • 2011. Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual (Routledge),
  • 2007. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Bloomsbury).
  • 2007. Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology (Bloomsbury).

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Astrid Ensslin - Faculty of Arts". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  2. ^ Ensslin, Astrid. "Astrid Ensslin - CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds". Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  4. ^ "Swansea University VR/AR Conference 2018 on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  5. ^ Press, The MIT. "Astrid Ensslin". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-07-26.

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