Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin, FRSA, FHEA

Akademische Positionen (Auswahl):

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Auswahl:

• “Center for Digital Narrative”, NFR (Norsk forskningsråd) SFF (Center for Excellence in Research), 2023-2033, (PI, Directors: Profs. Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen, NO): NOK 155m.
• “The Intimate Technology Shaping Millions of Lives: Exploring the Possibilities of Menstruation and Perimenopause Tracking Apps for People with Diverse Embodied Experiences”, Marsden Fund New Zealand 2022-2024, (Associate Investigator; PI: Prof Sarah Riley): NZ$  870,000
• “Critical and Inclusive Digital Narratives: Theory and Praxis”, Meltzer Høyskolefond 2022 (PI): NOK 47,500
• “Audio Games and Music Composition,” SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2026 (Co-PI; PI: Prof Scott Smallwood): CDN$ 268,400.
• “Enabling Equipment for Research Excellence in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)”: UiBergen Infrastructure Grant, 2022 (Co-PI; PI: Prof Morten Fjeld): NOK 4,783,000
• “Studying the Language of VR: Understanding Affective Empathy”: UiBergen Smådrift, 2021-2022, PI: NOK 40,120
• “Understanding the digitalized world structuring women’s embodied experiences”: UMassey MURF Grant (CI; PI: Prof Sarah Riley), 2021: NZ$ 6,000
• “Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-Design for 21st Century Digital-born Bibliotherapy”: SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), 2018-21, PI: CDN$ 217,165
•  “Speech Accents in Games:” 
  • SSHRC  / ReFiG sub-project, 2017-18, PI: $18,530
  • match-funded by KIAS Cluster grant, “Deep Learning for Sound Recognition” (PI: Prof Michael Frishkopf), 2017, CI: $55,000
• “Digital Narratives around the World:” KIAS (Kule Institute of Advanced Study) Dialogue Grant, 2016-17, PI: $1,770.
• “Reading Digital Fiction,” UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Research Grant (with Dr Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam, UK), 2014-17, CI: £243,000.
• “Computer Gaming Across Cultures,” British Council’s UK-US-India Education and Research Initiative (with University of West Virginia and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), 2013-15, Co-PI: £49,500.
•  “Transformative thinking: Using digital fiction as a tool for improving body image,” Welsh Crucible seed grant (with Dr Sarah Riley, Aberystwyth and Dr Joan Haran, Cardiff University), 2013-14, CI: £8,838.
• “What’s Hard in German:” (specialized corpus of advanced British L2 learners of German); AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, , (with Prof. Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University, Berlin), 2009-12, PI: £247,000.
• “Digital Fiction International Network:” Leverhulme Trust (with Dr Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam, UK), 2009-2011, CI: £15,500.

Monographien und Herausgeberschaften:

1. Thomas, Bronwen, Julia Round and Astrid Ensslin (eds) (at press) The Routledge Companion to Literary Media. New York: Routledge.
2. Bell, Alice and Astrid Ensslin (at press) Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality. New York: Routledge.
3. Ensslin, Astrid (2022) Pre-Web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature, Cambridge: C.U.P.
4. Ensslin, Astrid & Alice Bell (2021) Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
5. Ensslin, Astrid & Isabel Balteiro (eds) (2019) Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality. New York: Bloomsbury.
6. Ensslin, Astrid, Pawel Frelik and Lisa Swanstrom (eds) (2017), Small Screen Fictions, Special Issue of Paradoxa, vol. 29. 334 pp.
7. Ensslin, Astrid (2014) Literary Gaming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Bell, Alice, Astrid Ensslin & Hans Rustad (eds) (2014) Analysing Digital Fiction. New York: Routledge.
9. Ensslin, Astrid (2011) The Language of Gaming. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
10. Ensslin Astrid & Eben Muse (eds) (2011) Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual. New York: Routledge.
11. Ensslin, Astrid (2007) Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. London: Continuum.
12. Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (eds) (2007) Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum.

Zuletzt erschienene Aufsätze:

1. Ensslin, Astrid (2022) “Video Games as Complex Narratives and Embodied Metalepsis”, in Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä (ed) The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. New York: Routledge.
2. Perram, Megan and Astrid Ensslin (2022) “The Possibilities of Illness Narratives in Virtual Reality for Bodies at the Margins,” Digital Creativity, online first, 22/05/2022.
3. Wilks, C., A. Ensslin, C. Rice, S. Riley, M. Perram, K. A. Bailey, L. Munro and H. Fowlie (2022) “Developing a Choice-Based Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy,” Frontiers in Communication, 6, 10.3389/fcomm.2021.786465
4. Ensslin, Astrid (2022) “Transmedial Unnatural Spatiality and Postdigital Dystopicalization in The Pickle Index,” in Dan Punday (ed) Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination. New York: Routledge.
5. Villanueva, Emily and Astrid Ensslin (2021) “Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: Inquisition“, in Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak (ed) Pragmatics of Accents. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 205–228.
6. Ensslin, Astrid, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Megan Perram, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, and Aly Bailey (2021), “Bodies in E-lit,” in J. O’Sullivan and D. Grigar (eds) Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 91-102.
7. Van der Bom, Isabelle, Lyle Skains, Alice Bell, and Astrid Ensslin (2021), “Reading Hyperlinks in Digital Fiction: an Empirical Approach,” in Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons, and Dave Peplow (eds) Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Eine volle und aktuelle Publikationsliste kann hier abgerufen werden.

Auszeichnungen:

• University of Alberta GSA Graduate Student Supervisor Award 2023
• Great Supervisor Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, 2020
• N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature, 2019, second prize, for Small Screen Fictions
• Associate Researcher of the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver, 2019-2020
• Research Excellence Award (Full Professor), University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts (2019)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (seit 2009)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (seit 2005)
• MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, UK) Poster Prize (2009)
• First Prize, Teaching Excellence Awards, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Leeds (UK) (2004)

Geförderte Projekte (Auswahl):

• “Center for Digital Narrative”, NFR (Norsk forskningsråd) SFF (Center for Excellence in Research), 2023-2033, (PI, Directors: Profs. Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen, NO): NOK 155m.
• “The Intimate Technology Shaping Millions of Lives: Exploring the Possibilities of Menstruation and Perimenopause Tracking Apps for People with Diverse Embodied Experiences”, Marsden Fund New Zealand 2022-2024, (Associate Investigator; PI: Prof Sarah Riley): NZ$  870,000
• “Critical and Inclusive Digital Narratives: Theory and Praxis”, Meltzer Høyskolefond 2022 (PI): NOK 47,500
• “Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-Design for 21st Century Digital-born Bibliotherapy”: SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), 2018-21, PI: CDN$ 217,165
• “Speech Accents in Games:” SSHRC  / ReFiG sub-project, 2017-18, PI: $18,530
  match-funded by KIAS Cluster grant, “Deep Learning for Sound Recognition” (PI: Prof Michael Frishkopf), 2017, CI: $55,000)
• “Reading Digital Fiction,” UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Research Grant (with Dr Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam, UK), 2014-17, CI: £243,000.
• “Computer Gaming Across Cultures,” British Council’s UK-US-India Education and Research Initiative (with University of West Virginia and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), 2013-15, Co-PI: £49,500.
•  “Transformative thinking: Using digital fiction as a tool for improving body image,” Welsh Crucible seed grant (with Dr Sarah Riley, Aberystwyth and Dr Joan Haran, Cardiff University), 2013-14, CI: £8,838.
• “What’s Hard in German:” (specialized corpus of advanced British L2 learners of German); AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, , (with Prof. Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University, Berlin), 2009-12, PI: £247,000.
• “Digital Fiction International Network:” Leverhulme Trust (with Dr Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam, UK), 2009-2011, CI: £15,500.

Keynotes:

• "'I Was the Person Who Wasn't There': Ambispatial Orientation and 'Empathy' in Readers of VR Fiction", Games and Literature Conference, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 28-30 June 2023
• "Ambi-spatial Orientation and Narrative Empathy in Readers of VR Fiction", Games and Literary Theory 2023 Conference – Intent / Intentionality, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, 10-11 May 2023
• "Electronic Literature in Europe and India", Valedictory speech, "E-literature: Explorations in Literary Creativity" conference, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, 16-17 Jan 2023.
• “Videogames, Digital Fiction, and the Unnatural,” 1st International Conference on Games and Narrative, University of Waterloo (CA), June 14th, 2021.
• (with Christine Wilks), “Posthuman Healing and Critical Digital Fiction Co-Design”, 15th SLSAeu Conference, “Literary and Aesthetic Posthumanism”, Bergen (NO), March 4th, 2021.
• “‘These Waves …:” Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies.” Electronic Literature Organization conference, Cork, Ireland, July 17th, 2019.
• “VR Story-gaming: Between Immersion, Flow, and Engagement.” VR/AR in Education conference, Swansea University (UK), September 12th, 2018.
• “Embodiment in Digital Fictions: Towards Post-Digital Écriture Féminine,” 16th Annual St Jerome’s Day Conference, “Translation and the Body,” University of Alberta, Sept 30th, 2018.
• “Transmediating Bildung: Videogames as Life Formation Narratives,” Transmediating Culture(s) conference, Szczecin University (PL), Nov 17-19, 2016. 
• “Metaludicity in Jason Nelson’s Poetry Games,” Digital Poetry conference, University of Gothenburg (SE), Sept 20, 2016.
• “The Language of Gaming: Affective Discourse Patterns in Two Videogame Paratext Genres,” LEXESP 2016: Videogames and Language, May 5-6, 2016, University of Alicante (E). 
• “Videogames as Unnatural Narratives,” DiGRA 2015 (Digital Games Research Association) conference, 14-17 May 2015, Leuphana (Lüneburg, D).
• “Studying the Meanings of Digital Fiction: Ludostylistics and Psychonarratology,” IALS 2014 (International Association of Literary Semantics) conference, 4 July 2014, Kent (UK).
• (with Cedric Krummes), “Lernersprache zu DaF-Materialien: die Korpora WHiG und Falko,” DAAD Conference 2012, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park (UK), June 2012.
• “Literary Gaming: Between Ludic Digital Literature and Literary Computer Games,” CoDE 2012 conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), 28 March 2012.
• “’Staging Illusion:’ Metalepsis as a Transmedia Phenomenon,” “Staging Illusion” conference, University of Sussex (UK), 8-9 December 2011.
• “New Media Writing: Towards Second Generation Criticism,” MeCCSA PGN Conference, Bangor, 9 July 2009. 

Akademische Führungsrollen (Auswahl):

• Director of the Electronic Literature Organization (seit 2017)
• Graduate of UAlberta’s Gold College Academic Leadership program, 2019-2020
• Director of Media and Technology Studies at UAlberta (2020)
• Director of UAlberta, Faculty of Arts “Digital Synergies” signature area of research and creative collaboration (2019-2020)
• Deputy Dean (Research), College of Arts and Humanities, Bangor University (2013-2016)

Redaktion:

• Principal Editor, Bloomsbury “Electronic Literature” book series
• Editorial Board member, Discourse, Context and Media (Elsevier)
• Editorial Board member, Digital Culture & Society (transcript / de Gruyter)
• Board of Reviewers, Game Studies 

Forschungsgremien und -beratung:

• Board member, Austrian Science Fund, PEEK (Program for Arts-Based Research)
• Member of the ESF (European Science Foundation) College of Expert Reviewers
• Advisor to Innovate UK and RCUK (Research Councils UK) on their Creative Content Industries Delivery Plan for 2015/16, Oct 2014
• Advisor to the European Science Foundation on its Forward Look on ‘Media Studies: new media and new literacies’, May 2012.
• Peer reviewer and/or adjudication committee member, e.g. for the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency on its Horizon 2020 program; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; Arts and Humanities Research Council UK; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Leverhulme Trust (UK); Irish Research Council; Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; Austrian Science Fund; Fond National de la Recherche Luxembourg.
   

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Lehre an der UR:

Sommersemester 2023

• Vorlesung – Dienstags, 10-12 | 36352a Introduction to Literary Media mit verpflichtender Übung, Dienstags 13-14 Uhr oder 14:30-15:30 36252b Introduction to Literary Media – Übung/Practical
• Hauptseminar – Donnerstags, 10-13 Uhr | 36251 Videogames Across Cultures

Wintersemester 2022/23

• Blockseminar, "Digitale Literatur in/als digitale Geisteswissenschaften" | 36250 

Universität Bergen (2021-2022):

• DIKULT 207 Digital Humanities in Practice (fall 2021 and 2022)
• DIKULT251 Critical Perspectives on Technology and Society with Bachelor Thesis: Participatory Culture (spring 2021 and 2022)
• DIKULT 301 Research Methods and Project Development in Digital Culture (spring 2022)
• DIKULT 303 Digital Media Aesthetics (fall 2021 and 2022)

University of Alberta (2016-2020):

• MLCS 210 Language(s) of Culture (winter 2019 and 2020)
• MLCS 499 Advanced Critical Game Design and Theory (winter 2019)
• MLCS 345 / DH 530 Videogames Across Cultures (fall 2018 and 2020)
• C LIT 210 Cyberliterature (winter 2018)
• HUCO 617 Digital Fiction (fall 2016 and 2017; winter 2020)
• HUCO 530 Project Design and Management in Humanities Computing (winter 2017)
• MLCS 795 Grant Writing (fall 2017, 2018, 2020)

Graduierte DoktorandInnen:

• Dr James Barrett, ‘Reading Freedom: Techniques for the Control of Reading in Four Works of Digital Literature’ (2015, University of Umeå)
• Dr Sonia Fizek, ‘A Methodological Toolkit for Player Character Research in Offline Role-Playing Games’ (2012, Bangor University)
• Dr Xavier Laurent, ‘Memory of Intelligent Virtual Agents in a 3D Environment: a Behavioural and Computational Approach’ (2014, Bangor University)
• Dr Lyle Skains, ‘Practice-led creative writing research into multimodal digital narratives’ (2013, Bangor University)

Laufende Dissertationsbetreuung:

• Jordan Ashworth (PhD MLCS), “On the Nature of Doing Glitches in Speedrunning: A Case Study of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” (candidacy passed, 2022)
• Max Dickeson (PhD EFS), “Social Rolls: Narrative Play and Social Interaction in Tabletop Role-laying Games” (candidacy passed, 2021)
• McKenzie Gordon (PhD MLCS / Interdisciplinary Studies), “Press ‘X’ to Crush the Patriarchy: Video Games as Sites for Sexual Violence Prevention” (candidacy passed, 2021)
• Liljana Gulcev (PhD MLCS), “Beasts to Bed, Wed, and Dread: Imagining Masculinities in Folk and Popular Media” (candidacy passed, 2018)
• Melanie Oberg (PhD English and Film Studies), “Games Without Language: Reading the Story of Silence” (candidacy passed, 2022)
• Megan Perram (PhD MLCS), “Click Me: Literary Hypertext as Illness Narrative for Women with Hyperandrogenism” (candidacy passed, 2020)

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