Erik Champion

Erik Champion is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Emeritus Professor at Curtin University and invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK. He was also an Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Canberra. At Curtin he was UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, as well as Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC). Prior to Curtin he was the inaugural Project Leader of DIGHUMLAB in Denmark.

He wrote Playing with The Past: Into the Future (Second ed. Springer, 2023), Rethinking Virtual Places (Indiana University Press, 2021), Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage (Routledge, 2015), and Playing with the Past (Springer, 2011). He also wrote Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019), edited The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (Routledge, 2018), and Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press, 2012), and co-edited Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: the Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic (Routledge 2023), Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? (De Gruyter, 2023) and Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2017).