https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-0025Astrid Ensslin is Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at the University of Regensburg, where she leads the Digital Area Studies Lab (DAS|LAB), which she founded in 2023. Previously held full professorships at the University of Wales (Bangor), the University of Alberta (Canada) and the University of Bergen (Norway). She has published 12 books and over 80 peer-reviewed articles on digital fiction and literary computer games, body image, femtech and digital media, critical community co-design and narrative therapy, discourses of gaming, the spatial design and narrative potential of virtual realities, as well as in methods of digital humanities and empirical reader research. She has been a Director of the Electronic Literature Organization since 2018 and, since 2019, Principal Editor of the Bloomsbury “Electronic Literature” book series.
