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Dr. Lena Möller is a research fellow at the Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg, where she has worked since 2018 after graduating in Comparative Cultural Studies and History at the same university. Her research centres on narrative, game and popular-culture studies, with particular attention to playable narratives (gamebooks), fairy-tale motifs in media, and everyday storytelling practices. She serves as secretary and board member of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) and is active in several academic associations.
Education:
- 2024 – Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Regensburg (dissertation on gamebooks)
- 2018 – M.A. Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg
- 2014 – B.A. Comparative Cultural Studies & History, University of Regensburg
Research interests: Möller investigates how stories are told, played and transformed in historical and contemporary contexts. Her projects explore playable narratives (analogue and digital), campus and workplace storytelling, and the adaptation of fairy-tale and legendary material in popular media. Methodologically she combines qualitative fieldwork, ethnographic film, mental mapping and archival research.
Publications trend: Across her monographs and articles she analyses how interactive or serial media (gamebooks, video games, streaming series) negotiate values, identities and community. Recent work connects game studies with memory studies and ethnography of labour and leisure, highlighting the cultural work of narrative choice and affective engagement.
Scientific awards & grants: No specific prizes are listed; her projects have been supported by internal university funds and external partners such as the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Albania summer school 2024).
Advising & project leadership: She co-leads recurring methods seminars on ethnographic filmmaking and has coordinated collaborative field schools and digital-archive projects (e.g., COVID-19 diary platform), but no individual doctoral or master’s students are named.
Labs & teams: Möller is part of the Regensburg Chair team and an active member of the DGEKW commissions “Narrative Research” and “Cultures of Popular Entertainment”, contributing to conference organisation and early-career networks.
