Mobility and Beyond: Neo-Victorian Explorations of Agency in Gendered and Classed Gamespaces
With Sarah Beyvers, Research Fellow of British Literature and Culture at University of Passau, Germany.
Open to all campus community members!
Coffee and tea served at 5:00 p.m. and presentation with discussion to follow begins at 5:30 p.m.
Sarah Beyvers’s research interests include neo-Victorianism, video game studies, fandom and narratology. She has published articles on neo-Victorian engagement, video game narratology, popular and fan culture, contemporary film as well as queer representation. Her lecture focuses on the role of spatial explorability and interactivity in video games that reimagine the Victorian age. 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, Sarah Beyvers asserts that interactive exploration and ludic engagement constitute a neo-Victorian mode of their own.
Presented by the Department of German Studies and the Passau UPS Faculty Exchange Program

Wyatt Hall 109