Katya Gorecki is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University where she jokes she is the worst English major since she seems to rarely write about actual books. She is currently writing a dissertation on virtual reality and American culture from 1692-2017 (witchcraft is involved.) Her areas of study include American popular culture, science fiction, digital media, politics, and video games. She holds a Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon and a Bachelors from the University of Illinois of Chicago.