Deena Engel’s research interests focus on the conservation and theory of time-based media art and specifically on computer-based art. She has a BA from Jackson College of Tufts University in French and German; an MA from SUNY-Binghamton in comparative literature with a focus on literary translation from French and German; and an MS in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Engel is the codirector, along with Prof. Glenn Wharton, of the Artist Archives Initiative, a research project designed to leverage technology to house and disseminate information on contemporary art. She has worked with major museums over the past sixteen years on projects which address the challenges involved in the conservation of time-based media art and is coeditor of the Routledge volume Conservation of Time-Based Media Art. Engel has taught undergraduate computer science courses on web and database technologies, as well as courses for undergraduate and graduate students in the digital humanities and the arts. She is currently a PhD candidate at Bard Graduate Center in New York City.