Astrid Ensslin

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Norway
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Germany
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Astrid Ensslin
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Astrid Ensslin is Professor in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Her main publications include Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature (CUP, 2022), Digital Fiction and the Unnatural (Ohio State UP, 2021, with Alice Bell), Approaches to Videogame Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2019, co-edited with Isabel Balteiro), Small Screen Fictions (Paradoxa, 2017, co-edited with Lisa Swanstrom and Pawel Frelik) Literary Gaming (MIT Press, 2014), Analyzing Digital Fiction (co-edited with Alice Bell and Hans Kristian Rustad, Routledge, 2013), The Language of Gaming (Palgrave, 2011), Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual (co-edited with Eben Muse, Routledge, 2011), Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Continuum, 2007), and Language in the Media: Representations, Identitites, Ideologies (co-edited wit Sally Johnson, Continuum, 2007). She was Principal Editor of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds from 2008 to 2018. She is Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded "Writing New Bodies" project, and Co-investigator of the "Reading Digital Fiction" project (funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council), and the Leverhulme-funded Digital Fiction International Network. She is a Director of the Electronic Literature Organization and a Principal Investigator of UiBergen's SFF Center for Digital Narrative.

Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
The Interlocutor in Print and Digital Fiction: Dialogicity, Agency, (De-)Conventionalization Article in an online journal MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 2018
Electronic Fictions: Television, the Internet, and the Future of Digital Fiction Article or chapter in a book Cambridge University Press 2017
Hypertext: Storyspace to Twine Article or chapter in a book Bloomsbury Academic 2017
Hypertext: Storyspace to Twine Article or chapter in a book Bloomsbury Academic 2017
Exploring digital fiction as a tool for teenage body image bibliotherapy Article in a print journal Taylor & Francis 2016
Video Games as Unnatural Narratives Article or chapter in a book Meson Press 2015
From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction Article or chapter in a book Routledge 2014
Literary Gaming Book (monograph) - print The MIT Press 2014
Nonlinear Writing Article or chapter in a book Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
Playing with rather than by the Rules: Metaludicity, Allusive Fallacy and Illusory Agency in The Path. Article or chapter in a book 2014
'Click = Kill'. Textual You in Ludic Digital Fiction' Article in a print journal StoryWorlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 2012
Locating the Literary in Electronic Ludicity: Jason Nelson's Evidence of Everything Exploding Conference paper or presentation 2012
“I Want to Say I May Have Seen My Son Die This Morning”: Unintentional Unreliable Narration in Digital Fiction Article in an online journal Language and Literature 2012
'I know what it was. You know what it was': Second Person Narration in Hypertext Fiction Article in a print journal Narrative, The Ohio State University Press 2011
From (w)reader to breather: Cybertextual de-intentionalisation in Kate Pullinger et al.’s Breathing Wall University of Nebraska Press 2011
From (W)reader to Breather: Cybertextual De-intentionalization and Kate Pullinger's Breathing Wall Article or chapter in a book University of Nebraska Press 2011
A [S]creed for Digital Fiction Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2010
From Revisi(tati)on to Retro-Intentionalization Article or chapter in a book Transcript 2010
Reclaiming the 'Golden Age': The Second Person in Digital Fiction Conference paper or presentation 2010
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions Book (monograph) - print Continuum 2007

Curator of:

Title City Country Datesort descending
The Future of Reading? An Exhibition of Digital Literature Sheffield United Kingdom October 22, 2014
Elit 4 Kids Porto Portugal July 18, 2018
Dyscorpia: Stories in Flesh and Bytes Edmonton Canada April 23, 2019 to June 30, 2019
ELO 2021 Performance Program (online) May 25, 2021 to May 28, 2021
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