Regina’s current research projects focus on narrative structures in and of video games. Recently, she has published a paper on intertextuality in video games, exploring how the inclusion of games in other games establishes intertextual links between those games. Two articles focussing on pro-American propaganda as well as anti-communist sentiments in Cold War themed video games are scheduled to be published in winter 2020. Another article, in which Regina explores the relationship between nostalgia and intertextuality in the formation of a video games canon is currently under review for publication in the Video Game Art Reader. Together with Dr Ed Vollans from Leicester University, Regina co-edits a collection on video game paratexts.
Regina's research interests are:
- narratology
- self-reflexiveness
- contemporary fiction
- video games
- literary theory
Regina has completed work on narrative structures and world-creating processes in contemporary fiction and video games. She is especially interested in self-reflexive works that mirror the way fictional universes are created, linking theories of continental narratology, game studies, and philosophy. In the process of exploring world-building mechanisms, Regina’s work challenges current thinking in narratology, particularly with regard to new interactive media. She has published her research in the form of journal articles and book chapters, both in English and in German.
Papers and Book Chapters
2020. “Down with the Commies: Anti-Communist Propaganda in American Cold War Videogames.” PAIDIA. (forthcoming)
2020. “Nostalgia through Intertextuality: Creating Game History.” Video Game Art Reader 4. (forthcoming)
2020. “Play America Great Again: Propagating Democracy through Symbols of ‘Americanness’ in Cold War Themed Videogames.” Gamevironments 12. (forthcoming)
2019. “Dynamical Experiments with Verbal, Generic, and Material Form in Literary Fiction.” In Dynamik der Form: Literarische Modellierungen zwischen Formgebung und Formverlust. Edited by Sona Arasteh-Roodsary et al., 115–41. Heidelberg: Winter. with Ilona Mader.
2019. “Games within Games: The Two (or more) Fictional Levels of Video Games.” In Videogame Sciences and Arts. Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1164. Edited by Nelson Zagalo et al., 18–31. Cham: Springer.
2018. “Between the Natural and the Artificial: The Sublime Sexual Sensation of Car Crashes in J.G. Ballard’s Crash.” Green Letters 22, vol. 4: 412–25. DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2018.1529607.
2018. “Im Spannungsfeld von Tradition und Erneuerung: Wie J.J. Abrams und Doug Dorsts S. den Leser auf Reisen schickt.” In (Off) The Beaten Track. Normierungen und Kanonisierungen des Reisens. Edited by Hajo Diekmannshenke, Stefan Neuhaus, and Uta Schaffers, 443–64. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. with Ilona Mader.
Conference Papers
Canadian Games Studies Association Conference, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences
1 June to 5 June 2020, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and re-scheduled for 2021 with confirmed acceptance of already-accepted papers)
Panel organisation; panel title: “Video Games and (Para)Textual Studies”
Paper title: “On the Margins: Paratexts of Video Games”
The Present and Future of History and Games
28 February 2020, Warwick University, UK
Paper title: “Historical Bias and Propaganda in Cold War Video Games”
Videojogos2019
27-29 November 2019, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Paper title: “Games within Games: The Two (or More) Fictional Levels of Video Games”
Dynamik der Form
12-14 October 2017, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Paper title: “Dynamische Formexperimente in der Literatur am Beispiel von J.J. Abrams und Doug Dorsts S.” (“Dynamical Experiments with Literary Form in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dort’s S.”)
Anthony Burgess: Life, Work, Reputation
2-5 July 2017, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
Paper title: “Metafiction in Anthony Burgess’s End of the World News: An Entertainment”
Literatur und Ritual
9-11 June 2017, FU Berlin, Germany
Paper title: “Ritualisierte Ritualbrüche in der Literatur” (“Ritualised Breaks with Rituals in Literature”)
RESCON Research Conference
5 April 2017, Birmingham City University, UK
Paper title: “Reflexion as Evident Obligation: The Break with Conventions in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S.”
JGB Day 2016: JG Ballard and the Natural World
29 October 2016, Birmingham City University
Paper title: “Autofiction as a Process of Highlighting ‘Inner Space:’ The Self-reflexive Shift of Human Interaction with Technology in J.G. Ballard’s Crash”
Autumn School: Evidente Verbindlichkeiten zwischen Reflexion und Geltung
Evident Obligations Between Reflexion and Validity
17-19 October 2016, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Paper title: “Reflexion als evidente Verbindlichkeit: An zwei Beispielen romantischer und postmoderner Literatur” (“Reflexion as Evident Obligation: Two Examples of Romantic and Postmodern Literature”)
RESCON Research Conference
11 December 2015, Birmingham City University
Paper title: “‘Oh God comma I abhor self-consciousness:’ Metafiction in the Postmodern British Novel”
RESCON Research Conference
15 December 2014, Birmingham City University
Paper title: “Towards a New Theory of Metafiction”
