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Sarah Beyvers teaches British literature and culture as well as digital media culture at the University of Passau. Her research interests include neo-Victorianism, video game studies, fandom and narratology. She has published articles on video game narratology, popular and fan culture, contemporary film as well as queer representation. Her PhD project is concerned with the role of spatial explorability and interactivity in video games that reimagine the Victorian age. In Walk Like a Victorian: Neo-Victorian Video Games and Their Interactive Engagement with the Nineteenth Century (working title) she argues that the medium-specific properties of video games allow for the gamified and spatialised exploration of a reimagined Victorian past. Putting the ‘play’ back into neo-Victorian playfulness, as it were, Sarah Beyvers asserts that interactive exploration and ludic engagement constitute a neo-Victorian mode of their own.
