ETC Press Advisory

The ETC Press advisory board is made up of a diverse cross-section of entertainment technology industry professionals, academics, and media professionals. The Board has two main roles: helping determine which projects we work on and promoting that work into the fields in which they work.

 

Brad King

Brad King

Brad King is the Editorial Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press and University Libraries, where he works on the CMU Publishing initiative. He earned his Masters in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, and a graduate...

Brian Schrank

Brian Schrank is assistant professor and chair of Game Design at DePaul University in Chicago. His MIT Press book “Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture” places games within the context of art history and the avant-garde. He has two major research goals. The first goal is to...
Caitlin Burns

Caitlin Burns

Currently Vice Chair of the Producers’ Guild of America New Media Council, Caitlin Burns is a world leader in franchise storyworld development, multiplatform strategy and connecting sustainable business models to emerging creative technologies. As a transmedia producer for over 15 years...
Charles Palmer

Charles Palmer

As the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies, Charles Palmer oversees the design and development of ventures in new and emerging technologies, serves as the Program Lead for the undergraduate Interactive Media program, is an adviser to the...
Chris Klug

Chris Klug

Trained as a theatrical lighting designer, Chris Klug began his career in the arts working on Broadway, in regional theater and toured with various 70’s rock n’ roll bands. Then, at the invitation of a fellow photographer, Chris transitioned into a career as a Game Designer. Starting with...
Christy Dena

Christy Dena

Dr. Christy Dena is Program Co-ordinator of the Master of Creative Industries at the SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane. Previously she was the Chair and Department Coordinator of Games at SAE Creative Media Institute. Christy completed her Ph.D. on Transmedia Practice at the...
Clark Dodsworth

Clark Dodsworth

Clark has been a tech strategist involved with startups for over 25 years. His current focus is ubiquitous mobile awareness, resulting in hyper-personalization, which he developed during his tenure on the Dubailand leisure/entertainment project, 2007, managed by McKinsey. Genuine mobile...
Drew Davidson

Drew Davidson

Drew Davidson is a professor, producer and player of interactive media. His background spans academic, industry and professional worlds and he is interested in stories and transformational experiences across texts, comics, games and other media. He is the Director of the Entertainment...

Frank Lantz

Frank Lantz is the Director of the NYU Game Center, he has taught game design for over 12 years at NYU, SVA, and Parsons and his writings on games, technology and culture have appeared in a variety of publications. Frank is a game designer who has worked in the field of game development...
Golan Levin

Golan Levin

Golan Levin is Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science, the School of Design, the School of Architecture, and the Entertainment Technology Center. As an educator, Golan’s pedagogy is...

J.C. Herz

J.C. Herz is cofounder of IonChannel, a data and delivery platform for software supply chain intelligence and OSS devops. In 2006, she founded Batchtags, a startup that pioneered novel visual interfaces for large, highly interconnected networks. Batchtags was acquired by a defense firm in...
Jane Friedman

Jane Friedman

Jane Friedman has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in digital media strategy for authors and publishers. She’s the co-founder of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and has previously worked for F+W Media and the...

John Wesner

I am a retired Mechanical Engineer. I have a degree from Carnegie (BS and PhD, both ME) and Caltech (MS ME). After serving in the U.S. Army (thanks to ROTC), I worked 31 years for Bell Laboratories, designing/developing telecom products. When I retired, I wanted to share my industry...
Jon-Paul Dumont

Jon-Paul Dumont

Jon-Paul, ETC Class of 2004, is the Senior Creative Director for King’s San Francisco Mobile Games Studio. He has shipped and operated facebook, mobile and console games for Disney, Zynga and Electronic Arts. Twitter: @jpedumont

Mary Flanagan

Mary Flanagan is a creative pioneer and the founder of the Tiltfactor game lab at Dartmouth College. Her fifth book, Values at Play in Digital Games (with philosopher Helen Nissenbaum, 2014), demonstrates that thinking about human values is a key to innovation. Flanagan’s work has recently...
Oscar Garcia-Panella

Oscar Garcia-Panella

Dr. Oscar Garcia-Panella holds a B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications, besides a M.Sc. and Ph. D degrees in Electronic Engineering, respectively, in 1995, 1998 and 2004. He’s enjoyed several stages abroad, like at the IMSC (Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California –...

Sandy Stone

Sandy Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. In the summers she teaches at the European Graduate School EGS in Switzerland. Sandy’s background ranges from the golden era of Bell Labs, recording with Jimi Hendrix...
Shirley Yee

Shirley Yee

Since earning a BFA from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, I have been employed at various advertising agencies, design studios, and universities. My career path has been a three-forked road and always intersected...