Dr. Kathrin Trattner
Research Associate
Biography
Kathrin Trattner studied religious studies and German language and literature at the University of Graz. In March 2020, she completed her doctoral studies in religious studies. In her dissertation, she examined the question of how enemies are constructed in first-person shooters with war settings from an intersectional perspective. Her primary research interests lie in the field of religion, culture, and digital media, especially gaming. She is particularly interested in the interaction of religion as an identity marker and attribution with other social categorizations such as gender, ethnicity, and social class. Kathrin Trattner completed her postdoctoral project “Gaming the Nation: An Intersectional Investigation of Nation, Identity, and Video Gaming” at the University of Bremen, which she began in March 2022 and which is funded by the Central Research Fund.
Research Focus
- Religion and Gaming
- Nation and Identity
- Religion, Gender, and Social Media
- Catholicism and Gender in Italian Genre Cinema
Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)
- “Was Barbarossa not German?!”. Nation, history, and identity in Civilization players’ online discussions. Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
https://doi.org/10.7557/ejcgc.v16i2.8087 - The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games. On Hostile Ground. Taylor & Francis Group
- ’There’s evil in the wood’. Abjekt und Geschlecht in Robert Eggers‘ THE VVITCH. Dämon:innen, Ketzer:innen, Heilige. Formen religiöser Devianz in Text und Bild
- Between Feminist Solidarity and “Bible-Verse-Throwers”. Catholic Feminist Activists on Social Media and Experiences of Agency. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-13021244 - #NotMyBattlefield. Deutungskämpfe um 'Historische Authentizität' in Gamerdiskussionen. Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
https://www.friedrich-verlag.de/friedrich-plus/sekundarstufe/geschichte/methodik-didaktik/notmybattlefield-14661 - Trattner, Kathrin (2023). Gaming the Nation. A Research Report. . gamevironments. 18 (18). 75–91
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/242 - Übernatürliche Frauengestalten. Steirische Sagen in religionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive
- Politics at The Heart of Gaming. A Critical Retrospective of gamescom 2019. gamevironments
- Round Table Discussion on Nation(alism), Identity and Video Gaming with Megan Condis, Marijam Didzgalvyte, Georg Hobmeier and Souvik Mukherjee. gamevironments
- Special Issue “Nation(alism), Identity and Video Gaming”, edited by Lisa Kienzl and Kathrin Trattner. gamevironments
