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Maria K. Alberto
Maria K. Alberto (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Utah, where she is currently working on her dissertation on canons in popular culture, as exemplified procedurally with Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). More broadly, her research interests include digital storytelling, transformative fanworks, fandom community practices and genre literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is a current member of the Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) organizing committee and a co-founder of the Critical Role Bibliography (#CritRoleBib). Her recent work has included fandom-facing surveys on racebent fanart and the definition of ‘blorbos’, as well as essays on digital platforms and forthcoming book chapters on queer readings of Tolkien. At this very moment, Maria is probably either working on said dissertation or playing D&D. Either way, coffee with way too much sugar is involved.
Contact: Department of English, Languages & Communication, University of Utah, Bldg 255 S, Central Campus, Dr., Rm 3500, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.