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Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Humanities and Game Studies at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts. She directs Media and Technology Studies and holds adjunct appointments at the University of Bergen and Alberta. Her interdisciplinary research bridges digital media, literary studies, and applied linguistics, with particular focus on digital fiction, literary gaming, and language ideologies in games.
She leads several SSHRC-funded projects including 'Writing New Bodies' on digital bibliotherapy for body image. Her publications include eight books such as Approaches to Videogame Discourse (Bloomsbury) and Literary Gaming (MIT Press).
Ensslin teaches courses in digital fiction, game studies, and transmedial narratology. She has supervised over 10 graduate students to completion and serves as Director of the Electronic Literature Organization and Editor of Cambridge Elements in Digital Fiction.
Publications consistently engage with digital textuality, showing evolution from hypertext theory to VR narratives. Recent work explores therapeutic applications of interactive fiction and linguistic aspects of game cultures.
