Astrid Ensslin
Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German digital humanities scholar and games researcher, and Professor of Media and Digital Communications at the University of Alberta 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.
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. Since 2017, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization in October 2017. In September 2018, she will give the keynote lecturer at the Swansea University VR/AR conference.Books
- 2018. Small Screen Fictions.
- 2014. Literary Gaming.
- 2013. Analyzing Digital Fiction.
- 2011. The Language of Gaming.
- 2011. Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual,
- 2007. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions.
- 2007. Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology.
