Computer game theory, digital culture/Cyberculture studies, digital literature and art, humanities computing, the history of media technology, cyberpunk/sf studies.
I am currently working on these topics:
Prior to coming to ITU in 2003, Aarseth was professor at the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, which he co-founded in 1996. Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gamestudies.org – the first academic journal of computer game research. Author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Johns Hopkins UP 1997), a comparative media theory of games and other aesthetic forms.
Phone: +45 7218 5045 (email is probably more effective)
Email: aarseth itu.dk
Webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espen_Aarseth
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s H2020 ERC-ADG programme (grant agreement No 695528)