Espen Aarseth#
| Membership Number: | 5174 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/people/aarseth-espen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Dean, Chair Professor of Game Studies, City University of Hong Kong
- 2017,01 - 2024 Professor of game studies, Department of Digital Design, IT University of Copenhagen
- 2019,08 - 2024,08 Special Terms Professor, Beijing Normal University
- 2015,01 - 2016,01 Head of Games teaching programme, IIT University of Copenhagen.
- 2012, Head of Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
- 2003,07 - 2016,12 Associate professor, The IT University of Copenhagen
- 2003 - 2008, Head of Computer Games Research Group, IT University of Copenhagen
- 2002,05 - 2003,06 Full professor at Dept. of Humanistic informatics, University of Bergen
- 2000 Researcher for the large-scale Norwegian research project “Power and Democracy”
- 1996,04 - 12, Acting Dept head, Dept. of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen
- 1996,08 - 2002,04 Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanistic informatics, University of Bergen
- 1993,01 - 1996,07 Research fellow (Norwegian Research Council) in Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen
Fields of Scholarship
- Electronic literature
- Games studies
- Literary theory
Honours and Awards
- 2019,08 - 2024,08 Special Terms Professor, Beijing Normal University
- 2019 Member Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- ERC Advanced Grant, 2016-2021, MSG: Making Sense of Games, 2.009.560 EUR
- 2000,06 - 2001,05 Visiting Scholar, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University
- 2002,08 - 2012,07 Professor II (20%), Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
