Dr. Marc Ruppel is a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, where he specializes in game, digital media and transmedia storytelling. Before joining the Endowment, Marc worked on several transmedia/digital-experiential learning + gaming projects, including the Tribeca-funded Robot Heart Stories. He holds a Ph.D. in Digital Studies from the University of Maryland College Park, and has written about digital practices in venues such as The International Journal of Learning and Media and Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices and Locative Technologies