K. Wenz

Expertise

Karin Wenz coordinates the NWO funded project "Narrative Fan Practices" (2010-2015) and the NWO KIEM project "Hacking Heritage (2014-2015).

Her recent research focuses on gaming culture (theorycrafting, modding and game art, machinima), death in digital games and hacking communities

Disciplinary profile: digital aesthetics, digital culture, game culture
Main topics: digital poetry, digital performance, game art, online gaming communities, game practices, modding, machinima, theorycrafting, hacking

Professional career history

  • Karin Wenz is Assistant Professor for Media Culture at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands) since September 2003
  • postdoc researcher in the  project  "An Intercultural Study of Word and Image relations in the Media in Brazil and Germany  at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC), Brasil, 2000.
  • Guest Professor at Brown University, Providence, RI (USA) in 1998
  • Ph.D. thesis on "Space, Spatial Language and Textual Space" (Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume), completed 1995 in Kassel under the guidance of Winfried Nöth, and won the award of the German Association of Semiotics in 1996

K. Wenz

Assistant professor

Literature & Art, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences