Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German

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scholar and games researcher, and Professor of Digital Culture at the

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. She was previously Professor of Media and Digital Communications at the

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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-W� ...

in 2002. In 2006 she completed her PhD on digital literature and hypertexts at

Heidelberg University } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, 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

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, 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

. 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

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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.

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