Nick Montfort is an assistant professor of digital media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is also a poet, computer scientist, and author of interactive fiction. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and the contemporary fiction novel 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he and Ian Bogost wrote Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). ^[1]

Nick Montfort
Birth name	Nick Montfort
Field	Education, Digital Media, Interactive Fiction
Training	see Field
Works	Grand Text Auto, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1
Patrons	Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Contents 1 Selected Works 2 Study of Video Games 3 Selected publications 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Selected Works

• The Ed Report
• Grand Text Auto Blog
• 2002: A Palindrome Story
• Implementation
• Mystery House Taken Over
• Winchester's Nightmare (1999)
• Book and Volume
• Ad Verbum (2000).

[edit] Study of Video Games

His longtime study of the world's first widespread gaming system has led to "Racing the Beam," co-authored with Georgia Institute of Technology associate professor Ian Bogost. In the book, they analyze the platforms, or systems, that underlie the computing process. They also discuss the social and cultural implications of the system that dominated the video game market. ^[2]

[edit] Selected publications

• Montfort, Nick (2003). Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

• Montfort, Nick; Noah Wardrip-Fruin (2003). The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

[edit] External links

• Nick Montfort's personal website
• Grand Text Auto Blog
• Implementation
• Book and Volume
• Ad Verbum

[edit] References

1. ^ http://digitallabor.org/speakers1/nick_montfort
2. ^ http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/08/a_talk_with_nick_montfort/

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