Lissa Holloway-Attaway as ZeMKI Fellow in Bremen

In October 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway from the University of Skövde in Sweden as a visiting scholar.

Lissa Holloway-Attaway is an Associate Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration in the Division of Game Development within the School of Informatics at the University of Skövde (Sweden). She is the leader for the GAME (“games, art, media, experience”) Research Group, and she teaches in the games and Informatics education, from undergraduate to PhD levels.  She is also the Co-Editor in Chief (with Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at ZeMKI) of the gamevironments Journal. Her background is in theatre performance, literature, and digital culture/media studies, and she works across many digital media forms, from games, digital art, electronic literature, with a focus on deeply ‘entangled’ socio-cultural systems user engagement and critical feminist and inclusive design perspectives.

Her current research is focused on emergent media experiences (AR/VR/MR), interactive digital narratives, sound-based digital interactive experiences, digital cultural heritage games, and critical feminist and post/non-human perspectives on video games and related media. The focus of her research during her visit at ZeMKI is on grief, death, transformation, and ‘passing on’ in video games and video game cultures. She draws on theoretical perspectives about non-familial kinship, distributed agencies, and identifying entangled phenomena that de-structure traditional power relations and social dynamics in games and gaming communities.