Theresa Krampe is a postdoc at Osnabrück University and the University of Tübingen’s International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW). She is the author of Metareference in Videogames (Routledge 2025) and co-editor of Videogames and Metareference (with Jan-Noël Thon, Routledge 2025). Her research interests include indie games, transmedial narratology, gender and queer studies, and AI ethics. She is co-speaker of the AG Games within the German Society for Media Studies (GfM).

Recent game studies publications include:

“Metareferential Videogames and/as Game History.” Games Canon & Games History, eds. Dîlan Canan Çakir, Andreas Rauscher, and Lilly Weiz. Springer. Forthcoming 2026

“Ethical Implications of Using Generative AI for NPCs in Videogames: The Case of Diversity.” Proceedings of the SVI 2024 Conference Artificial Game. With Jana Hecktor. Forthcoming 2026.

“No Longer Safe Before the Screen? Game-Transcending Metareference in Indie Horror Games.” Videogames and Metareference: Mapping the Margins of an Interdisciplinary Field, eds. Theresa Krampe and Jan-Noël Thon, 77–97. Routledge. 2025.