Lori Landay is a professor of cultural studies at Berklee College of Music, a new media artist, and an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores visual meaning in digital culture. She is the author of the books I Love Lucy and Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women, and her creative work includes animation, machinima, and interactive virtual installations. Landay has received awards, including a Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and she has appeared in the American Masters documentary Finding Lucy. For Berklee Online, she teaches Digital Storytelling, Game Design Principles, and The Language of Film and TV, all of which she authored.