Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German
digital humanities
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scholar and games researcher, and Professor of Digital Culture at the
University of Bergen
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. She was previously Professor of Media and Digital Communications at the
University of Alberta
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Ensslin is known for her work on digital fictions and video games, and her development of narratological theory to encompass digital narratives.
Biography
Ensslin received an undergraduate certificate in violin performance and music 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
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wà ...
in 2002. In 2006 she completed her PhD on digital literature and hypertexts at
Heidelberg University
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, 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 from 2016 to 2020 she was Professor of Media and Digital Communication and Director of Media and Technology Studies at University of Alberta, before moving to her current position at the
University of Bergen
The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...
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Ensslin is the founding and principal editor of the journal ''Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds'', a review board member of the journal ''Game Studies'', and a member of the editorial boards of ''Discourse, Context & Media'' and ''Digital Culture & Society''. She joined the Board of Directors of the
Electronic Literature Organization
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in October 2017.
Books
* 2022. ''Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature''. (Cambridge University Press).
* 2021. ''Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis''. (Ohio State University Press). With Alice Bell.
* 2019. ''Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality''. (Bloomsbury). With Isabel Balteiro.
* 2018. ''Small Screen Fictions'' (Paradoxa). With Lisa Swanstrom and Pawel Frelik.
* 2014. ''Literary Gaming'' (MIT Press).
* 2013. ''Analyzing Digital Fiction'' (Routledge). With Alice Bell and Hans K. Rustad.
* 2011. ''The Language of Gaming'' (Palgrave).
* 2011. ''Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual'' (Routledge). With Eben Muse.
* 2007. ''Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions'' (Bloomsbury).
* 2007. ''Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology'' (Bloomsbury). With Sally Johnsson.
References
External links
Home page
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Living people
German women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Electronic literature critics
University of Bergen faculty
Literary theorists
Norwegian scholars
German scholars
Electronic literature writers