| Institutional affiliation |
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Kent
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| Research interests relevant to game philosophy |
My research is currently concerned with Walking Simulators, their characteristics, and how we can analyse them as transmedia storytelling artefacts. I also teach digital media stylistics and come from a journalism background.
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| Publications and presentations relevant to game philosophy |
Publications
‘“You were all the world like a beach to me” The use of second person address to create multiple storyworlds in literary video games: “Dear Esther”, a case study’
International Journal of Transmedia Literacy (IJTL) (Forthcoming)
Conference Papers
2018 ‘Why pretend to walk when you can pretend to read? Or, How can a Walking Simulator be a literary experience?’
English Literature and Creative and Professional Writing Research Day
Canterbury Christ Church University
2016 ‘“You were all the world like a beach to me” The use of second person address to create multiple storyworlds in literary video games: “Dear Esther”, a case study’‘
Expanding Universes: exploring transmedial and transfictional ways of world-building, Facta Ficta Research Centre, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2016 ‘“You were all the world like a beach to me” The use of second person address to create multiple storyworlds in literary video games: “Dear Esther”, a case study’‘In/Authentic Styles: Language, Discourse and Contexts’, Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Sardinia
2015 ‘Player agency doesn’t exist; Reader agency is real – the case for redesigning terms in the multiform digital narrative’
Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference
University of Kent
2014 ‘Ludonarrative Dissonance – can literary games learn from traditional literature?’
Literary Semantics: Past, Present, Future? The 6th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics
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| Keywords |
Walking Simulator, transmedia, digital media, literary stylistics
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| Personal links |
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ell/staff/colthup.html
medium.com/@Heidi_Colthup
twitter.com/Heidi_Colthup
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| Background |
I'm something of a latecomer to academia – I was a journalist, writer, and previously a school teacher. I've been in academia for just over ten years, my background here has been creative writing, particularly online writing, and then into literary studies and stylistics.
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