Project Outputs

Research-creation:

Voices: a digital fiction about body image issues (touchscreen and browser) by Christine Wilks

Scholarly publications:

• Nair, Karuna, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram (2023) “Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions”, in B. Thomas et al. (eds) Routledge Companion to Literary Media.

• Panic-Cidic, Natali (2022) "Digital Fictions: Towars Designing Narrative Driven Games as Therapy." In J.A. Rodríguez et al. (eds) Mental Health / Atmospheres / Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 77-86.

• Perram, Megan, and Astrid Ensslin (2022) “The Possibilities of Illness Narratives in Virtual Reality for Bodies at the Margins.” Digital Creativity, 33(2), 128-156.

• Wilks, C., A. Ensslin, C. Rice, S. Riley, M. Perram, K. A. Bailey, L. Munro and H. Fowlie (2022) “Developing a Choice-Based Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy,” Frontiers in Communication, 6.

• Ensslin, Astrid, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Megan Perram, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, and Aly Bailey (2021), "Bodies in E-lit", in James O'Sullivan & Dene Grigar (eds), Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities. New York: Bloomsbury. Open Access.

• Ensslin, Astrid, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Megan Perram, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, and Aly Bailey (2020), "'These Waves...:' Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies," electronic book review, April 5th.

• Perram, Megan, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and K. Alysse Bailey (2020) "Writing New Bodies in Digital Fiction," First Person Scholar, March 25th.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2020) “Stories in Flesh and Bytes: Telling the Posthuman Body in Electronic Literature,” Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, ed. Marilene Oliver and Daniel Laforest. Edmonton, AB: Department of Art & Design.

Presentations:

• Ensslin, Astrid (2023) "Cyborg-Autorinnenschaft und ihre Abhängigkeiten in digitalen Fiktionen: ein pragmatischer Ansatz", Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Jahrestagung, University of Bonn, 29. September.

• Wilks, Christine (2023), "Voices: an interactive digital fiction for body image bibliotherapy", ELO Salon (online), 8 August.

• Wilks, Christine (2023) "Voices: An Interactive Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy", ELO 2023 Conference Exhibition "Arborescent || Resistance", University of Coimbra, 12-15 July.

• Wilks, Christine (2023) "Writing New Body Worlds digital fiction, 'Voices and Choices'" Digital Literature for Social Good Unconference (online), Bournemouth University, 17-18 January.

• Wilks, Christine (2021) "Developing a Digital Fiction for Body Image Narrative Therapy", MIX 2021 Conference, "Amplified Publishing" (online), Bath Spa University, 6th July.

• Wilks, Christine (2021) "Open to Construction: reading and writing bodies in digital fiction and the open web platform", ELO 2021 Conference, "Platform [Post?] Pandemic" (online), Aarhus University & University of Bergen, 27th May.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2021) “Towards Relational Posthumanism: Writing New Body Worlds in Digital Fiction,” McGill University, Spectrums of Digital Humanities lecture series, March 19th. 

• Perram, Megan (2021), “Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-design for 21st Century Digital-born Bibliotherapy.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies 2021 Annual Conference, 19 March 2021, Denver (virtual), Colorado.

• Ensslin, Astrid and Christine Wilks (2021) "“Posthuman Healing and Critical Digital Fiction Co-Design”, 15th SLSAeu Conference, “Literary and Aesthetic Posthumanism”, Bergen, March 4th. Keynote lecture.

• Ensslin, Astrid and Christine Wilks (2020), "“Creating Digital Fiction for Body Image Interventions,” Electronic Literature Organization conference (online), University of Central Florida, July 18th, 2020. (Full roundtable video available here)

• Ensslin, Astrid, Christine Wilks, and Megan Perram (2020), "From Feminist Participatory Co-Design to Research-Creation: Developing a Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy," Canadian Society of Digital Humanities conference (online), June 5th.

• Nair, Karuna, Aly Bailey, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, Megan Perram, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, and Astrid Ensslin (2020) "Media-enhanced Reading Therapy for Body Image," poster presented at FURCA conference, University of Alberta, March 13th. (Enclosed below).

• Ensslin, Astrid (2020) "Literary Games (for Bibliotherapy)", German-Canadian Centre for Innovation and Research, Culture and Digital Technologies Dialogue Series, University of Alberta, Jan 21st.

• Perram, Megan (2020) “Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-design for 21st Century Digital-born Bibliotherapy,” (En)Forced (Mis)Connections 2020: Tracing Spaces of Violence, Struggle & Solidarity, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 13 Feb. 2020.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2019) "'Writing New Bodies or Body Worlds?' - Applied Digital Fiction as Critical, Feminist Participatory Co-Design", Research Seminar, Department of English, Uppsala University (SE), Nov 27th.

• Panic-Cidic, Natali, Aly Bailey, Hannah Fowlie, Antonia Mann, Lauren Munro, Megan Perram, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, and Astrid Ensslin (2019) "Digital Fictions: Towards Designing Narrative-Driven Games as Therapy," Clash of Realities conference, Cologne Game Lab (D), Nov 19th. 

• Ensslin, Astrid, Megan Perram, Aly Bailey, Carla Rice, and Hannah Fowlie (2019) "Writing New Bodies at the Intersections of Gender? Challenges of Community Co-Design as Feminist Participatory Action Research," workshop at the Working the Intersections of Gender conference, University of Alberta, Oct 3rd, 2019.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2019) "'These Waves ...': Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies," keynote lecture at the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization Conference, University College Cork (IRE), July 17th. CORA videolink.

• Mann, Antonia, Aly Bailey, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, Natali Panic-Cidic, Megan Perram, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, and Astrid Ensslin (2019) "Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) in 'Writing New Bodies'," poster presented at UARE Poster Symposium, University of Alberta, July 10th. (Enclosed below).

• Ensslin, Astrid (2018) "Writing New Bodies: postfeministische Körperbilder und postdigitale écriture féminine," invited research talk at University of Passau (D), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dec 14th.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2018) "Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-Design, Digital-born fiction and Postdigital Écriture Féminine," talk at MLCS Roundtable on "Postdigital Bodies and #metoo," University of Alberta, Dec 3rd.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2018) "Writing New Bodies," invited talk at Open Minds 2018, University of Alberta, Nov 27th. Vimeo link.

• Ensslin, Astrid (2018) “Embodiment in Digital Fictions: Towards Post-Digital Écriture Féminine,” invited talk at the 16th Annual St Jerome’s Day Conference, “Translation and the Body,” University of Alberta, Sept 30th. 

• Ensslin, Astrid (2018) "Writing New Bodies in Digital Fiction," invited talk at the EVE2050 symposium, University of Alberta, April 27th.