Category: 2016 Bios & Manifestos

James Beal’s Bio & Manifesto

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Bio

James Beal is a systems administrator with over 26 years of professional experience. For the last 8 years he has been specialising in high throughput computing, and lately this has been expanded to implementing private clouds. James lives in the UK with his wife and two teenage sons. Fandom life probably started with Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Today in media he favours Elementary, Doctor Who, Person of Interest, Steven Universe and Sherlock. His favourite authors are Seanan McGuire, Diana Wynne Jones, Diane Duane, Philip Pullman and Ben Aaronovitch. He joined the Systems committee as a staff member in January 2011 and became the Systems technical lead in March 2013. Later in 2013 he joined the Accessibility, Design & Technology committee as a member of staff rather than as a Systems liaison.

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Kristina Busse’s Bio & Manifesto

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Kristina Busse is founding co-editor of OTW’s academic journal Transformative Works and Cultures and has been working for the OTW for 8 years. She has co-edited several academic books on fan fiction and fan cultures, and continues to publish in the field. Her books include the co-edited Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom, and The Fan Fiction Studies Reader. All proceeds of the reader go, in fact, to the OTW. Kristina joined organized fandom as a Buffy/Angel shipper in the late 90s and has been in more fandoms since than she dares admit, with a Dragon Age, MCU, and Vorkosigan obsession at the moment. She has a PhD in English from Tulane University and teaches in the Department of Philosophy and in the Gender Studies Department at the University of South Alabama. She teaches everything from logic and mythology to fan studies and LGBT history. Kristina is a transplanted German, living in the Southern United States with her family of tabletop role-playing gamers.

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Priscilla Del Cima’s Bio & Manifesto

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Priscilla Del Cima has a Law degree and is finishing an MBA at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. She first joined the OTW in 2009 and has worked on various committees since then, including Development & Membership, AO3 Documentation, and Wiki. She has been serving as chair of the Translation committee since working to restructure the team in late 2013, and is also working to rebuild the Finance team.

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