Bianca Batti

Bianca Batti is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Literary Studies in the department of English at Purdue University. She is a recipient of the Frederick N. Andrews Fellowship and has a graduate concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching operates at the intersection of popular culture studies, feminist game studies, and science fiction studies. Her work has been published in scholarly journals like The Popular Cultural Studies Journal and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and also in Haywire Magazine, Not Your Mama’s Gamer, and edited anthologies. She co-authored a chapter entitled “People, Programs, and Practices: A Grid-Based Approach to Designing and Supporting Online Writing Curriculum” in the recently published edited collection PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors, and her chapter “‘What’s real is family’: Maternal Bodies, Paternal Labor, and Parenting Roles in the Fast and Furious Franchise” will appear in the edited collection Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Commerce and Ideology of The Fast and the Furious Films (forthcoming, Spring 2021). She worked as the Online Developer for Teaching & Learning for the Writing and Communication Program during the Spring and Summer 2020 terms, and she is currently an editor at TECHStyle.