Astrid Ensslin (she/her) is Professor in Digital Humanities and Game Studies, who divides her teaching and research activities between the Departments of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. Her main publications include Small Screen Fictions (Paradoxa, 2017, co-edited with Lisa Swanstrom and Pawel Frelik), Literary Gaming (MIT Press, 2014), Analyzing Digital Fiction (Routledge, 2013, co-edited with Alice Bell and Hans Kristian Rustad), The Language of Gaming (Palgrave, 2011), Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual (Routledge, 2011, co-edited with Eben Muse), Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Language in the Media: Representations, Identity, Ideology (Bloomsbury, 2007, co-edited with Sally Johnson). She has led externally funded research projects on videogames across cultures, reading and analyzing digital fiction, and specialized language corpora. She is PI of the "Writing New Bodies" project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as Editor of the C.U.P. Elements "Digital Fictions" minigraph series and of the Bloomsbury "Electronic Literature" book series.

Dr James O’Sullivan lectures in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork. He has previously held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Sheffield. James is the author of Towards a Digital Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) and he has also edited several collections, including Reading Modernism with Machines (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). His scholarship has appeared in a variety of international publications, most notably, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. James has also had writing in The Guardian, The Irish Times and LA Review of Books. See jamesosullivan.org for more on his work.

David Thomas Henry Wright is an author, poet, digital artist, and academic. He won the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards’ Digital Literature Prize, 2019 Robert Coover Award (2nd prize), and 2021 Carmel Bird Literary Award. He has been shortlisted for multiple other prizes, been published in various journals, and received various research grants and fellowships. He has a PhD from Murdoch University and a Masters from The University of Edinburgh, and taught Creative Writing at China’s top university, Tsinghua. He is co-editor of The Digital Review, narrative consultant for Stanford’s Smart Primer project, and Associate Professor at Nagoya University.

Dr. Jason Lajoie is an early career researcher in responsible innovation, research-creation design and equity, and queer media theory who holds a PhD in English from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Jason works as an independent scholar, documentary filmmaker, and is currently an editor at electronic book review (ebr).