Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler is an associate professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder, a social computing researcher, and a legal scholar. They hold a PhD in human-centered computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Their research examines technology ethics and governance, online communities, social media, copyright, and transformative fandom.

Fiesler is also a published science-fiction writer and has contributed scholarship on online creative communities and fanfiction. They wrote the foreword to Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring, published by MIT Press in 2019.