Dr Melanie Chan

Melanie Chan’s publications include: Digital Reality: The Body and Digital Technologies (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has also published academic journal articles, book chapters and science fiction short stories.

Melanie Chan is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Media, Communication Cultures programme at Leeds Beckett University.

Her research interests include virtual reality, mobile media and digital culture. She has also published two monographs: Digital Reality: The Body and Digital Technologies (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has also published   ‘Environmentalism and The Animated Landscape in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke’ as part of the edited collection The Animated Landscape (Bloomsbury, 2015 and ). Other published work includes the chapter ‘Place, Play and Privacy: Exploring Location-Based Applications and Spatial Experience’ In Digital Futures and the City of Today (Intellect, 2016). She has also published various journal articles.

BA Hons Media, Communication Cultures, BA Hons Media and English, BA Hons History and Media, BA Hons Creative Writing in Contemporary Cultures, MA Media and Culture.

Undergraduate modules include:

• Media Interactions
• Understanding Social Media
• Media Past Present
• Researching Media and Culture
• Digital Media and Culture.

Postgraduate modules include:

• The Art of Investigation
• Mobile Media Cultures
• Theory into Practice
• Major Project