Associate Professor Kath Dooley is a writer/director and academic based at the University of South Australia. Kath is author of Cinematic Virtual Reality: A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices (2021) and co-editor of Screenwriting for Virtual Reality: Story Space and Experience (2024). Her research interests include embodiment in the context of screen media, virtual reality and screenwriting, women’s screen industry practice, and diversity in the screen industries.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Body in the Story: Exploring Body Representation, Presence and Embodiment in Virtual Reality Narratives.- Chapter 3: Virtual Reality Narration: Listening to and re-living stories through first-person testimony.- Chapter 4: Exploring Environmental Storytelling Techniques in Expressive, Virtual Reality Documentary.- Chapter 5: Time, Space and the Body in The Under Presents (2019), a Multiplayer VR Game.- Chapter 6: Between storytelling and storyliving: user customisation of VR narratives.- Chapter 7: Virtual Reality Narratives Live Online: Immersive Theatre in VRChat Worlds.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Virtual Reality Narratives as Embodied Encounters in Space.

Associate Professor Kath Dooley is a writer/director and academic based at the University of South Australia. Kath is author of Cinematic Virtual Reality: A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices (2021) and co-editor of Screenwriting for Virtual Reality: Story Space and Experience (2024). Her research interests include embodiment in the context of screen media, virtual reality and screenwriting, women’s screen industry practice, and diversity in the screen industries.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Body in the Story: Exploring Body Representation, Presence and Embodiment in Virtual Reality Narratives.- Chapter 3: Virtual Reality Narration: Listening to and re-living stories through first-person testimony.- Chapter 4: Exploring Environmental Storytelling Techniques in Expressive, Virtual Reality Documentary.- Chapter 5: Time, Space and the Body in The Under Presents (2019), a Multiplayer VR Game.- Chapter 6: Between storytelling and storyliving: user customisation of VR narratives.- Chapter 7: Virtual Reality Narratives Live Online: Immersive Theatre in VRChat Worlds.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Virtual Reality Narratives as Embodied Encounters in Space.

Associate Professor Kath Dooley is a writer/director and academic based at the University of South Australia. Kath is author of Cinematic Virtual Reality: A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices (2021) and co-editor of Screenwriting for Virtual Reality: Story Space and Experience (2024). Her research interests include embodiment in the context of screen media, virtual reality and screenwriting, women’s screen industry practice, and diversity in the screen industries.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Body in the Story: Exploring Body Representation, Presence and Embodiment in Virtual Reality Narratives.- Chapter 3: Virtual Reality Narration: Listening to and re-living stories through first-person testimony.- Chapter 4: Exploring Environmental Storytelling Techniques in Expressive, Virtual Reality Documentary.- Chapter 5: Time, Space and the Body in The Under Presents (2019), a Multiplayer VR Game.- Chapter 6: Between storytelling and storyliving: user customisation of VR narratives.- Chapter 7: Virtual Reality Narratives Live Online: Immersive Theatre in VRChat Worlds.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Virtual Reality Narratives as Embodied Encounters in Space.