[3] She attended the University of Geneva to study literature as an undergraduate, before moving to the United States in 1968.
She later obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego.
[5] She has worked as a consultant and software engineer and has published over fifty articles, translated into several languages and dedicated, in particular, to the concept of digital narrative, narrative theory, genre theory, linguistic approaches to literature, and digital culture and given numerous invited lectures.
[4] In Avatars of Story,[6] she embraces a transmedial definition of narrative based on cognitive premises.
[3] She edited the Johns Hopkins Guide to New Media and Digital Textuality with Lori Emerson and Benjamin Robertson, which was published in 2014.