Felix Schröter
Felix Schröter holds a Master’s degree in Media Studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Studies as a member of the Graduate School Media and Communication within the Research Center for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg. His PhD thesis is concerned with video game aesthetics and game character analysis. His past research and publications have a strong focus on cognitive film theory, game studies, and transmedial narratology. In his extra-academic life he is Project Lead and Community Manager at the Hamburg-based game studio Bytro Labs since 2016.
Selected academic publications /media publications:
- Perron, Bernard / Schröter, Felix (Eds.) (2016): Video Games and the Mind. Essays in Cognition, Affect, and Emotion. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (McFarland)
- Schröter, Felix (2017): “Walk a Mile in My Shoes. Subjectivity and Embodiment in Video Games”. In: Reinerth, Maike Sarah / Thon, Jan-Noël (Eds.): Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives. New York: Routledge, pp. 196–213.
- Schröter, Felix (2016): “My Avatar and Me. Toward a Cognitive Theory of Video Game Characters”. In: Perron, Bernard / Schröter, Felix (Eds.): Video Games and the Mind. Essays in Cognition, Affect, and Emotion. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 32–52.
- Schröter, Felix (2015): “The Game of Game of Thrones. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and its Video Games Adaptations”. In: Beil, Benjamin / Sachs-Hombach, Klaus / Thon, Jan-Noël (Eds.): Media Convergence and Transmedial Worlds (Part 3). Special issue of IMAGE. Journal of Interdisciplinary Image Science (July 2015), pp. 65–82.
- Schröter, Felix / Thon, Jan-Noël (2014): “Video Game Characters. Theory and Analysis”. In: DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research, Vl. 3, No. 1, pp. 40–77.