Sabine Slowik is a research assistant at the Professorship of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces (Prof. Dr Astrid Ensslin) for the interdisciplinary German-British project “StoryMachine”, which is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to develop a digital interactive platform for preserving, exploring and providing access to folklore.
She completed a Bachelor's degree in Japanese Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, followed by a Master's degree in Comparative European Ethnology at the University of Regensburg. Her research, which is based on ethnographic and qualitative methods, has investigated the representation of history in digital games and the construction of urban identity through intangible cultural heritage. Since then, she has set her focus on the fields of Contemporary Folklore, Digital Humanities and Game Studies.
Office: BA.823, Bajuwarenstr. 4
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone number: +49 941 943 68522
CV
Academic Positions
| since April 2025 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur für Dynamiken virtueller Kommunikationsräume (Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin), DIMAS, University of Regensburg |
Academic Training
| 2018 - 2023 | Master of Arts in Comparative European Ethnology, University of Regensburg |
| 2012 - 2015 | Master's Studies in Japanese Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich |
| 2009 - 2012 | Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Studies and Sprache, Literatur, Kultur (SLK), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich |
Research
Main interests
- Contemporary Folklore
- Digital Humanities
- Game Studies
- Representations of history in digital games
- Urban identity constructions through intangible cultural heritage
Ongoing research project
"Project StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities", bilaterally funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Publications
Review: "Vepřek, Libuše Hannah (2019): Ludwigsfeld – (Un‑)Gleichzeitigkeiten eines Münchner Viertels, Vom Kampf um Anerkennung und Deutungshoheit über einen städtischen Raum, Münchner ethnographische Schriften", Bd. 30, In: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde, utzverlag, München, 2020, pp. 227-228.