Publications
“The Plague swept through here: The Negotiation of Victorian Anxieties about Contagion and Class in The Order: 1886 (2015) and Dishonored (2012).” Neo-Victorian Studies, 2022. (forthcoming)
“The Ripper at Play: The Interactive Exploration of the Whitechapel Murders in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper.” Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm, edited by Philip Jacobi and Anette Pankratz, Königshausen & Neumann, 2021, pp. 275-286.
“Deadpool spielt mit sich selbst: Kollektive Urheberschaft, Fanpraktiken und Anspruchsdenken in der Deadpool-Filmreihe (2016-).” Smarte Serienfans: Resistente Praktiken der Teilhabe in Fan-Gemeinschaften, edited by Anne Ganzert, Isabell Otto and Benjamin Schäfer, Augenblick: Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, vol. 78/79, 2020, pp. 33-49. (with Jonathan Rose)
“Do you see it now? Do you see it like I do?: Unreliability and the Unstable Narrating Mind in Dear Esther (2012) and Layers of Fear (2016).” Krankheit in Digitalen Spielen: Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen, edited by Arno Görgen and Stefan H. Simond, transcript, 2020, pp. 163-187.
“The Game of Narrative Authority: Subversive Wandering and Unreliable Narration in The Stanley Parable (2013).” Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, vol. 12, no. 1, 2020, pp. 7-21.
“American Queeroes: Coming-Out Narratives in the Captain America Fandom.” Comparative American Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2020, pp. 6-22. (with Florian Zitzelsberger)
“Revisionist Spectacle? Theatrical Remediation in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, pp. 3-21. (with Florian Zitzelsberger)
“The Good, the Bad and the Strudel: How Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009) Manipulates Its Audience with Violence.” Film Matters, vol. 7, no. 3, 2016, pp. 17-23.
“Einordnung von Let’s Play-Videos aus der Sicht des Urheber-, Jugendschutz- und Strafrechts: Überblick über die relevanten Rechtsfragen und Stand der Diskussion.” MultiMedia und Recht, vol. 12, 2015, pp. 794-800. (with Eva Beyvers)
Conference Papers
“Rats, Prostitutes, and Other Urban Monsters: Contagious Bodies and the City in Neo-Victorian Computer Games.” 16th ESSE Conference, Mainz. 29 August-2 September 2022. (invited)
“The Flâneuse and the City: The Gendering of Urban Mobility in Neo-Victorian Videogames.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore. 10-13 March 2022.
“Playing with Dirt: The Exploration of Filth and Disease in Neo-Victorian Videogames.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore. 10-13 March 2022.
“The Ripper at Play: Embodying Jack the Ripper and Exploring the Victorians Interactively in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (2015).” 15th ESSE Conference, Lyon. 30 August-3 September 2021.
“I’m Hearing Things: The Employment of Auditory Hallucinations in Horror Video Games.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 52nd Annual Convention, Philadelphia. 11-14 March 2021.
“What Are You Looking At? Female-Coded Bodies in AAA Games and the Role of Diversity.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 52nd Annual Convention, Philadelphia. 11-14 March 2021.
“The Literary, the Filmic, and the Ludic: Towards a Theory of Unreliable Videogame Narration.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 51st Annual Convention, Boston. 5-8 March 2020.
“All Walks of Life: Fostering Empathy and Diversity Through the Distinct Absence of Player Agency in ‘Walking Simulator’ Games.” Northeast Modern Language Association, 51st Annual Convention, Boston. 5-8 March 2020.
“The Game of Narrative Authority: Subversive Wandering and Unreliable Narration in The Stanley Parable (2013).” Wandering Games Conference, Bangor. 10-12 July 2019.
“Gendered Embodiment and Agency in Dishonored (2012) and Dishonored 2 (2016).” (Neo-)Victorian Orientations in the Twenty-First Century, Málaga. 15-17 May 2019.
“Unreliability and the Unstable Narrating Mind in Dear Esther (2012) and Layers of Fear (2016).” Madness in Popular Culture Conference, Edinburgh. 4-5 May 2018.
“‘Winter is Cumming (Out)’: Narrative Negotiations of Coming-Out and Social Media Reactions in the Captain America (2011-2016) Fandom.” 50 Shades of Popular Culture 2nd International Conference, Krakow. 20-23 February 2017. (with Florian Zitzelsberger)
“Alienation Effects and the Conflation of Theatre and Film as Meta-Spectacle in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015) and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014).” Spectacular Now: The Politics of the Contemporary Spectacle, Dortmund. 11-12 November 2016. (with Florian Zitzelsberger)
“Right up Mainstream: Collective Creatorship and Participation in the Deadpool (2016) Universe.” Expanding Universes: Exploring Transmedial & Transfictional Ways of World-Building Conference, Krakow. 23-25 September 2016. (with Jonathan Rose)
“The Trauma of Becoming Human in Michel Faber’s and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2001/2013).” Trauma, Evil and Anxiety Research Symposium, Hildesheim. 11-12 December 2015. (with Philip Jacobi)