Anastasia Salter is an assistant professor in the Science, Information Arts and Technologies Division at the University of Baltimore, where she teaches courses on game concept and design, interaction design for education, applied simulation, history of video games, and virtual worlds. She holds a Doctorate in Communications Design from the University of Baltimore, a Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University, a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Narrative Studies from the University of Maryland, and is in the process of completing her thesis for the Master of Fine Arts in Children's Literature at Hollins University. She writes a weekly “Future Fragments” column speculating on technology and pop culture for CinCity2000 and contributes regularly to the Chronicle of Higher Education blog ProfHacker.