hanne.grasmo@tuni.fi

+4799231177

Hanne Grasmo is a doctoral researcher at Centre of Excellency for Game culture studies, Tampere University. Her PhD-research centers around embodied role-play and sexual emotions, both in Nordic larp and in BDSM communities. Focus areas are role-play design, immersion, queer play and transformative play. Both personally and professionally she is interested in exploring borders, edges, brinks and unknown possibilities. Grasmo holds a MA in sociology, and have additional background from sexology, education, theatre and larp design. She has discussed and written about larp for more than 20 years, founded the Knutepunkt larp conferences, wrote the first book about Nordic larp (1998) and have recently published a monograph of her well know larp: “Just a little lovin’ larp script” (2021).