Dr Paul Labelle

Since 2025 Senior Researcher at the Chair of Media Studies | Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture (I:IMSK) at the University of Regensburg

2024 Doctorate in media studies | University of Bonn

2020-2025 Doctoral Researcher | GRK-2291 "Contemporary Literature" University of Bonn

2019 M.A. historical musicology | University of Hamburg

2013 B.Mus. (Hons.) | Royal Northern College of Music

Publication

[mit Alina Hofmann]: Einleitung, Opake Medien. Metakommentar und Störung als medienübergreifende Verfahren. Hannover: Wehrhahn 2024

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Essays and articles

The Trouble with Reading (Digital) Minds. Silent Invaders, Network Latency, and the Opacities of Play in Dark Souls II Multiplayer, in: Alina Hofmann and Paul Labelle (Ed.): Opake Medien. Metakommentar und Störung als medienübergreifende Verfahren, Hannover: Wehrhahn 2024

Mozart in the Kitchen: Musical Reference and the Crisis of Action in Last Action Hero, in: Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes (Ed.): The Palrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 173–188

The Presence of the Voice, Inside Out. Speaking Machines, Ventriloquism, and Acoustic Illusions, 1770–1800, in: Julia Mierbach, Eva Stubenrauch (Ed.): Gegenwartskonzepte 1750–1800. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Revision (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 22) 2023, 125–143

Tote Spione, tote Musiker und schlechte Poesie. Ambivalenzen der preisgekrönten Glees des Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 78/3 (2021), 181–200

A Theatre of Catches. Dialogue, Theatre and Ritual in the Restoration Catch, in: Ina Knoth (Hrsg.): Music and the Arts in England, c. 1650–1750, Dresden 2020, 181–197

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Lectures

3/25
On the History of (Virtual) Presence, in: 6th Media and Materiality Forum. Beijing, 29.–30. März

3/25
Technological Determinism: A Theory of History or Historical Event? A Discourse-Historical Perspective, in: FFK38. Düsseldorf, 12.–14. März

4/24
Towards a Transmedial History of ‘Immersion’, in: Spielgeschichte(n). Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Innsbruck, 11–13 April

3/23
Immersion beyond Belief. Objective, Subjective, and Social Presence, in: Relationality in VR. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Aesthetic Research in Virtual Reality. Lucerne, 22 March

7/22
Sounding Difficult. Muscles and Nylon in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XI, in: Opake Medien. Metakommentar und Störung als medienübergreifende Verfahren. Bonn, 20–21 July

5/22
(Re)discovering the Human in History through Machine Learning. Jennifer Walshe’s A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1, in: The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture. Princeton, 11–13 May

11/19
Dirty Money. The Prize of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club 1763–1794, in: Klang des Geldes. 32. Symposium des Dachverbandes der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaft. Kiel, 7–10 November

6/19
A Theatre of Catches: Dialogue, Theatre and Ritual in the Restoration Catch. Music and the Arts in England, c. 1650–1750. Hamburg, 27–29 June