Anastasia Salter
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Columbia, Maryland |
| Introduction | I started playing adventure games when my parents brought home our first computer. First game I ever played was this game called Rise of the Dragon, and mostly I remember dying a lot from a mutation that someone had set loose on the city. I had the reasonable goal of growing up to be an adventurer. That lead to some wandering around and occasionally ending up in buddhist monastaries, but I still haven't figured out where one applies for it as a paying gig. So I've ended up being a strange jack of all trades surviving off academia. Naturally, I didn't want to study anything practical, so I designed my own major in undergrad that I called "Digital Narrative Studies"--basically, I studied art, design, literature, american studies, film, pop culture, and anything else connecting to computer games. I'm now starting in the fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Baltimore. |
| Interests | Old-school Adventure games, Old-school First Person Shooter games, Children's Fantasy novels, Adult Fantasy novels, Social worlds, Social taboos, McLuhan-ites, Freud-ites, Vidal-ites, Cin-City2k, Sim-City2k, Intertextual narratives, Intersectual narratives, Intersexual narratives |
| Favorite movies | Addams Family, Alien, Auntie Mame, Beauty and the Beast, Brazil, Clerks II, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Four Weddings and a Funeral, From Hell, Hello Dolly, Last Starfighter, The Libertine, Little Miss Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, Quills, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Waking Life |
| Favorite music | Barbra Streisand, Barenaked Ladies, Cibo Matto, Dandy Warhols, Dar Williams, Eminem, Eric Idle, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, Frou frou, Gary Jules, Hairspray, Kirsty MacColl, KT Tunstall, Light in the Piazza, Linkin Park, Meryn Cadell, Nellie McKay, Nylons, Philip Glass, Pink, Sarah McLachlan, The Shins, Sophie B. Hawkins, Stella Soleil, Suzanne Vega, Thievery Corporation, Tom Lehrer, Tori Amos, Vanessa Mae, Wilson Phillips, Zero 7, Zoe, Zumanity. |
| Favorite books | Claire Malloy muder mysteries (Joan Hess), City and the Pillar and others (Gore Vidal), College/Scholar of Magics (Caroline Stevermer), Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson), Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends (Weis and Hickman), Ender's Game et al (Orson Scott Card), Everything Bad is Good for You (Steven Johnson), Finnegans Wake (Joyce), Fool's War (Sarah Zettel), Good Omens (Pratchett and Gaiman), Harry Potter and...(Rowling or fanfic), In Search of Lost Time (Proust), Musketeer Stories (Dumas), Neuromancer et al (William Gibson), Philosophy in the Bedroom (Marquis de Sade), Sadeian Woman (Angela Carter), Tortall novels (Tamora Pierce), Weetzie Bat and other books (Francesca Lia Block) |