Entire team:

• Transregional Game Studies, Folk Worlds and Folk Mechanic
  • Ensslin, forthcoming articles in de Leon et al. and Pötzsch et al.
  • Videogames as Folk Worlds Symposium (Vielberth Foundation funded), April 11-12, 2024
• De Gruyter Handbook of Language and Digital Culture (ed. Astrid Ensslin and Carmen Lee, University of Hong Kong) – under contract
• Bodies in Digital Media
  • Writing New Bodies / Body Worlds: digital-born body image bibliotherapy and (re-) fictionalizing body image (SSHRC-funded)
    • Translating the Voices story app into German (Simone Blessing and Christine Wilks)
  • Menstruation / Menopause Tracking Apps, Bodies & Identities  (Marsden/NZ funded)
• New Perspectives on Literary Gaming
  • Richter / Aksay / Schönberg / Scuderi / Ensslin: Literary Gaming Refigured: A Ren’Py Presentation for the ELO conference 2024  
    • Download-Link PC-Version (~70Mb)
    • Download-Link MAC-Version (~70Mb)
  • Aksay / Blessing / Ensslin / Richter / Schönberg (forthc.) “Zur Konstruktion des ‘Bookish Players’ in Pentiment“, in A. Brandenburg, L. Haasis and A. van Beek (eds) “Zeitenwende: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zum Spiel Pentiment“, Mittelalterblog.
• AI and Digital-born Fiction (Ensslin & Nelson, forthcoming in Liveley & Slocombe)
• Empirical reader research on VR fiction and “distance design” for critical empathy studies, memory spaces and medial reading (Bell and Ensslin, ch.6 in Reading Digital Fiction,  Ensslin & Bell in Lutostański, forthcoming; Ensslin & Ceuterick in DLA Marbacher Schriften, ed. Kinder & Çakir, forthcoming)

PhD projects:

• Death and Failure in Games: Existentialism and Social Action (Sebastian Richter)
• The Hard Core of Games – Narratological and Persuasive Potential in Reading Formal Game Elements (FS Schönberg)
• The Societal Implications of AI in the Cultural Industries (Edip Sönmez)