Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Fandom Studies. Booth earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (where he performed in the improv comedy troupe Spicy Clamato), before earning a master's degree in communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. -from Wikipedia