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'''Astrid Christina Ensslin''' is a German [[Digital humanities|digital]] culture scholar, and Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at the University of Regensburg.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ensslin |first=Astrid |title=Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin, FRSA, FHEA - Universität Regensburg |url=https://www.uni-regensburg.de/citas/english/area-studies-professors/prof-dr-astrid-ensslin/index.html |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=www.uni-regensburg.de |language=en}}</ref> 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]] 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]]. Ensslin has received numerous awards for her research, teaching and supervision.

Ensslin is the founding and principal editor of the journal ''Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jgvw|title=Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds|language=en|access-date=2018-07-26}}</ref> 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]] in October 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Astrid Ensslin - Faculty of Arts |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/astrid-ensslin |access-date=2018-07-26 |website=www.ualberta.ca |language=en}}</ref>

From 2021 to 2022, she was Professor of Digital Culture at the [[University of Bergen]] and Professor of Media and Digital Communication.

From 2016 to 2020, she was a Professor in Digital Humanities and Game Studies at the [[University of Alberta]].<ref name=":0" />

== Essays == * "'I Want to Say I May Have Seen My Son Die This Morning': Unintentional Unreliable Narration in Digital Fiction." Paper given at the 2009 Narrative Conference, University of Birmingham, 4–6 June 2009. * "From (W)reader to Breather: Cybertextual Retro-intentionalisation in Kate Pullinger et al.'s 'Breathing Wall'". New Narrative: Theory and Practice. Ed. Ruth Page & Bronwen Thomas. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010a. * "From Revisi(tati)on to Retro-intentionalisation: Hermeneutics, Multimodality and Corporeality in Hypertext, Hypermedia and Cybertext." Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. Ed. Roberto Simanowski, Peter Gendolla, Thomas Kniesche and Joergen Schaefer. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010b. 145-162. * "Respiratory narrative: Multimodality and cybernetic corporeality in 'physio-cybertext'". New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality. Ed. Ruth Page. London: Routledge, 2009. 155-65. * "Ensslin, Astrid. & Bell, Alice. Eds. New Perspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis. Special Issue of dichtung-digital 37 (2007). 18 November 2009. http://www.dichtung-digital.de/ * Ensslin, Astrid, and Alice Bell. “‘Click = Kill’: Textual You in Ludic Digital Fiction.” ''Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies'', vol. 4, 2012, pp.&nbsp;49–73. Available at https://shura.shu.ac.uk/12558/.

== Books ==

* 2024. Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality (Routledge). With [[Alice Bell (critic)|Alice Bell]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bell |first=Alice |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003110194 |title=Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality |last2=Ensslin |first2=Astrid |date=2024-02-29 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-11019-4 |edition=1 |location=New York |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003110194}}</ref> * 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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/astrid-ensslin|title=Astrid Ensslin|website=The MIT Press|language=en|access-date=2018-07-26}}</ref> * 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). Reviewed in [[Electronic Book Review]], April 5, 2020 <ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-04 |title="These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies › electronic book review |url=https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/these-waves-writing-new-bodies-for-applied-e-literature-studies/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2007. ''Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology'' (Bloomsbury). With Sally Johnsson.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [https://astridensslin.wordpress.com/ Home page]

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