User:Ccupitt

Name/s:	Cathy Cupitt
Fandom/s:	Vorkosigan, Die Hard, Lord of the Rings, Lotrips, NCIS, Star Wars, due South, Stargate, Star Trek
You can find me at:	http://cathy_cupitt.livejournal.com
On Fanlore:	My contributions / email me

I've got my official hat on under this name, so there aren't a lot of juicy fannish details. I have a paper on fanworks appearing in the Symposium section of the first issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Nothing but Net: When Cultures Collide".

About Me

Cathy Cupitt teaches writing at the University of Western Australia and has a doctorate in creative arts from Curtin University of Technology. Her fiction has appeared in Australian magazines such as Westerly and Borderlands, and in 1997 she won the US$20,000 first prize in Hyundai's 20th Anniversary World-wide Essay Contest. Since discovering fandom in 1988, Cupitt has written in nine fandoms, and she runs an active recommendations site. She has served on numerous fannish committees, including Australia's 2001 national SF convention, for which she was a co-convenor.

Cathy is currently on the board of directors of the OTW, and is acting as chair for the PR committee, as well as liaising with Elections, Translations and Wiki committees.