# Astrid Ensslin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Astrid_Ensslin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Astrid_Ensslin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Ensslin > Source revision: 1352425881 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Digital humanities scholar and games researcher (fl. 21st c.) Astrid Christina Ensslin Born Stuttgart, Germany Alma mater University of Heidelberg Scientific career Fields English literature, Digital literature **Astrid Christina Ensslin** is a German [digital](/source/Digital_humanities) culture scholar, and Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at the University of Regensburg.[1] 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](/source/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen) in 2002. In 2006 she completed her PhD on digital literature and hypertexts at [Heidelberg University](/source/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](/source/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*,[2] 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](/source/Electronic_Literature_Organization) in October 2017.[3] From 2021 to 2022, she was Professor of Digital Culture at the [University of Bergen](/source/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](/source/University_of_Alberta).[3] ## 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/](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. 49–73. Available at [https://shura.shu.ac.uk/12558/](https://shura.shu.ac.uk/12558/). ## Books - 2024. Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality (Routledge). With [Alice Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Bell_(critic)&action=edit&redlink=1).[4] - 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).[5] - 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](/source/Electronic_Book_Review), April 5, 2020 [6] - 2007. *Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology* (Bloomsbury). With Sally Johnsson. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ensslin, Astrid. ["Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin, FRSA, FHEA - Universität Regensburg"](https://www.uni-regensburg.de/citas/english/area-studies-professors/prof-dr-astrid-ensslin/index.html). *www.uni-regensburg.de*. Retrieved 2023-07-13. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds"](http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jgvw). Retrieved 2018-07-26. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) ["Astrid Ensslin - Faculty of Arts"](https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/astrid-ensslin). *www.ualberta.ca*. Retrieved 2018-07-26. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid (2024-02-29). [*Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality*](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003110194) (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.4324/9781003110194](https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781003110194). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-003-11019-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-003-11019-4). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Astrid Ensslin"](https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/astrid-ensslin). *The MIT Press*. Retrieved 2018-07-26. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [""These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies › electronic book review"](https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/these-waves-writing-new-bodies-for-applied-e-literature-studies/). 2020-04-04. Retrieved 2023-07-20. ## External links - [Home page](https://astridensslin.wordpress.com/) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Israel Academics ORCID People DDB Other IdRef ELMCIP Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Astrid Ensslin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Ensslin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Ensslin?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.