"Video Games." Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Brill, forthcoming.
"Immersion." Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Brill, forthcoming.
"Sexy Business and Queer Detecting: Playful Subversions of Victorian Dynamics of Oppression." Journal of Historical Fictions, vol. 6, no. 1, 2025, pp. 3-25. (with Sarah Faber)
"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, vol. 15, no. 2, 2025, pp. 94-120.
“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)
"Neo-Victorian Objects and Affects: Haptic and Sensory Engagement with the Nineteenth Century in Video Games between Authenticity Effects and Defamiliarisation." 18th ESSE Conference, Santiago de Compostela. 31 August-4 September 2026.
"'We walk upon our histories': Forced Embodiment and Neo-Victorian (Re-)Constructions of the Past in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (2013)." Historical Fictions Research Network Conference, Erlangen, 19-20 February 2026.
"Player Agency, Self-Efficacy, and Radical Hope in the Face of Environmental Destruction: The Ecocritical Spaces of Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (2023)." Video Game Cultures, Prague, 10-12 September 2025.
"Video Games and Victorian Myths of Urban Contagion: Images of Nineteenth-Century Classed Oppression in Interactive Reworkings of Disease." Victorian and American Myths in Video Games, Lisbon. 9-11 April 2025.
"Agency and Complicity in the Face of Systemic Oppression: The Player’s Influence on Dynamic Gamespaces in Dishonored (2012) as a Critique of Nineteenth-Century Class Structures." Historical Fictions Research Network Conference, Manchester. 13-14 February 2025.
"Mobility and Beyond: Neo-Victorian Explorations of Agency in Gendered and Classed Gamespaces." Lecture given as part of a faculty exchange with the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma. 17 September 2024.
"Other Ways of Playing and the Political Valence of Ludic Resistance Practices." Video Game Cultures, Birmingham. 12-14 September 2024. (online)
"Playing against the Grain: The Politics of Critical, Transgressive and Queer Play." Playing the Field IV, Dortmund. 11-13 July 2024.
"Surplus Pleasure and Resistance: Playing AAA Games Queerly." Northeastern Moden Language Association, 55th Annual Convention, Boston. 7-10 March 2024.
"Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative." (Panel Chair) Northeastern Moden Language Association, 55th Annual Convention, Boston. 7-10 March 2024. (with Jonathan Rose)
"Adapting Agency: Interactive Reworkings of Gendered and Classed Mobility in Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter (2016)." Historical Fictions Research Network Conference, Malmö. 23-24 February 2024.
"Navigating Oppression: The Explorability of Gendered and Classed Spaces in the (Neo-)Victorian City." Video Game Cultures, Klagenfurt. 7-9 September 2023.
"Dis/Embodied: Walking Simulators and Affective Interaction as Gothicised Play." Northeast Modern Language Association, 54th Annual Convention, Niagara Falls. 23-26 March 2023.
"'Greater democratic control': A European Approach to Strengthening Democratic Resilience Online." Northeast Modern Language Association, 54th Annual Convention, Niagara Falls. 23-26 March 2023. (with Anne Paschke)
“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.
“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)
