MelanieFritsch

Dr. phil. Melanie Fritsch is Junior professor for Media and Cultural Studies with a focus on Game Studies and related fields at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf since October 2020. She is a member of the Ludomusicology Research Group as well as the speaker team of the AG Games of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. She is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games and the „Journal of Sound and Music in Games” as well as the AG Spiele (Verband DHd – „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum“).Her dissertation „Performing Bytes. Musikperformances der Computerspielkultur“ was published in 2018. In 2021, she co-edited the „Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music” with Dr. Tim Summers (Royal Holloway), and a Special Issue of JSMG on the topic „Synergies between Game Music and Electronic Dance Music in Cultural Context”, co-edited with Prof. Hillegonda C. Rietveld is under way.