Contacts

Dr Melissa Kagen

Dr Melissa Kagen

Melissa Kagen is a Lecturer in Digital Media & Gaming at Bangor University. She received her PhD from Stanford University (2016) in German Studies, where she researched the concept of wandering in early 20th-century German/Jewish opera. Her work has recently been published in Game Studies, The German Quarterly, The Opera Quarterly, and The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons. Her current research focuses on walking simulators, gender, and intersections between participatory theatre and video games.

Dr Eben J. Muse

Dr Eben J. Muse

Eben Muse is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Senior Editor on the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. He was co-editor of Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture) and the author of The Land of Nam: Vietnam War in American Film. He teaches game design and animation, and his research is on the impact of the digital on our cultural sense of space and place.