Dr. Nataliya Gorbina is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz. Since completing her PhD on the ekphrastic gaze in British postmodern fiction from TU Dortmund, she has focused on the issues of (inter-)mediality, (post-)postmodern culture, and (ludo-)narratology. She is currently working on her DFG Walter-Benjamin project “The Biophilic (Eco-)Poetics of Video Games” (Project No.: 522053894).