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.

• since April 2022 - Research assistant at the Chair of English Literature and Culture (University of Passau)
• since April 2021 - Research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Media Studies with a focus on Digital Cultures (University of Passau)
• November 2021 - Higher education teaching qualification: Lehre+ (online teaching)
• October 2020 - Higher education teaching qualification: Lehre+ (basic level)
• 2019-2021 - Research assistant at the Chair of English Literature and Culture (University of Passau)
• 2018-2019 - Research assistant at the Chair of German Literature (University of Passau)
• October 2018 - Teaching degree for secondary schools (English and German; University of Passau)
• November 2017 - Bachelor of Education (English and German; University of Passau)