Background: Undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in English Literature and Political Science. My capstone course for my literature degree focused on interactive fiction and electronic literature. This can include anything from Borges and Cortazar to alternate reality games, networked wiki fiction, and video games.

Current Interests: I'm currently at the School of Information studying digital archives, but in the long run I want to combine that with my love of narratology and literature to produce some kind of weird amalgamation of the two. Part and parcel with this is user experience type stuff: how can people access cool stuff? Should that access be built into the piece, or around it?

Skills: I'm being trained to see everything in terms of access and workflow and creation, so I'd love to get involved in projects that have to do with access. In terms of tech skills, I've got some unremarkable experience with HTML and CSS. I'm hoping to expand my tech skills this summer/fall with some coding and database classes, and would love to get experience setting up that kind of thing. I'm also obsessed with wikis and wiki maintenance so I'm glad we have this. I also have extensive writing experience (thanks, undergraduate classes!) and am pretty good at writing stuff/proofreading others' work, which is a minor skill but one that some people are happy to hear about. Finally, I've got a lot of experience with social media sites and platforms and different uses thereof, which seems to be a skill that is getting more valuable (but probably goes without saying in this group).