Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Melanie Chan
Senior Lecturer
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.
Current Teaching
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
Research Interests
virtual reality, digital technologies, the body in contemporary culture, mobile media.
Ask Me About
- Culture
- Media
- Popular culture
- Virtual reality
Selected Outputs
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Chan MA (2015) Environmentalism and The Animated Landscape in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Princess Mononoke (1997). In: Pallant C ed. Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 93-108.
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Chan MA (2009) Twenty-First Century Gothic Representations of Post-Human Existence in Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed Ex-Machina and Vexille'. In: Cherry B; Ruddell C; Howell P ed. Twenty First Century Gothic. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 85-98.
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Chan MA (2010) Filmic Representations of Synthetic Beings: Fantasy or a Forthcoming Reality?. In: The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject, 2 July 2010 - 3 July 2010, University of Surrey.
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Chan MA (2009) Gender Representations of Post-Human Existence in Japanese Anime. In: Gendering East West Conference, 1 July 2009, University of York.
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Chan MA (2009) Augmented Humans and Synthetically Created Beings. In: MECCSA, 1 January 2009, Bradford Media Museum.
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Chan MA (2010) Beings in Japanese Cyberpunk Anime. Film and Film Culture, 5 pp. 28-51.
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Chan MA (2008) Virtually Real and Really Virtual: Baudrillard's Procession of Simulacrum and The Matrix. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 5 (2),
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Chan MA (2015) Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media. New York: Continuum.
News & Blog Posts
The Body and Technology: Keeping in touch during a pandemic.
There is No Escaping The Body: Bodily Metaphors and Technology
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