Game Canon and Game History

Dr. Dîlan Canan Çakir has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” at Freie Universität Berlin since July 2023. There she conducts research on activism and literature, digital exile literature, and games and literature. She holds a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which includes a research stay at the University of Cambridge beginning in January 2026. Until June 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the “Born-digitals” project at the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Rauscher, Professor of Media Theory and Media History at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern (Virtual Design) teaches also as a private lecturer in Film Studies and Media Dramaturgy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, as well as at the University of Darmstadt-Dieburg and the Film Academy Ludwigsburg. Curator for the Frankfurt Film Museum (Film & Games exhibition, 2015), member of the coordination team for the AG Games (Research Group Game Studies) in the German Society for Media Studies and freelance journalist (epd Film, testcard, among others).