Project team
Karin Kukkonen
Project leader
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature. She has worked on the (long) history of the novel and investigated how literary authors write in a creative mode. For JEUX, she will draw on her expertise in interdisciplinary approaches to literature, literary history and manuscript studies. Kukkonen is currently preparing an English translation of La Force’s Les jeux d’esprit (1701) and designing the experimental creative writing workshops together with Hannah Freundlich, Andreas Roepstorff and Marina Warner.
Hannah Freundlich
Researcher
Hannah Freundlich is doing a post-doc in Comparative Literature. She has worked for her PhD on Women and Gambling in various texts, using tools belonging to different disciplines (psychoclinic, history, anthropology, gender studies and so on). She will be working on the experimental creative writing workshops of the JEUX project together with Karin Kukkonen, Andreas Roepstorff and Marina Warner.
Larissa Lily
Administrative Coordinator
Larissa Lily is a Research Advisor at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. She will be responsible for the administrative coordination of the JEUX project.
Advisory board
Espen Aarseth
Espen Aarseth is the Dean, Chair Professor of Game Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media. He is currently also the Editor-in-Chief of Game Studies, the oldest peer reviewed journal in the field of game Studies. His current research concerns ideological, narrative, semiotic and ontological aspects of games and game communication, as well as topics such as game addiction, games and meaning, and also digital literature culture and aesthetics.
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Koen De Temmerman
Koen De Temmerman is a Research Professor (in the rank of Full Professor since 2019) at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, where he directs the Novel Saints: Ancient Fiction and Hagiography Research Centre.
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Andreas Roepstorff
Andreas Roepstorff is the Centre Director at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and a professor at the Aarhus University, at the Department of Anthropology and at the Interacting Minds Centre.
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Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols and fairytales.