Maggie’s work focuses on the adaptation processes of event films and fan management. Her research included working on the sets of Twilight (2008), Captain America (2011), and on the Academy Award shortlisted short, Love at First Sight (2010). She was Head of Development at Elfin Productions in the UK, and also investigated the gaming industry, researching with Turbine Inc. on The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and DC Comic’s Infinite Crisis.
She currently works in both higher education and the film industry, developing projects, editing scripts, and consulting on fan management, teaching at Signum University and CAPA University (London), while also consulting on education (mostly between the UK and US).
She has been published in The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (2009), co-edited a book of Critical Essays on Twilight (McFarland 2011), and has a chapter on ‘Utilising Fans in the Adaptation Process of The Lord of the Rings’ (2015) in Intellect Publishing’s Fan Phenomena series. She also wrote the foreword and was interviewed in their Twilight edition (2016). She is currently director of Signum Studios, working on projects for the Signum Collaboratory, and developing projects with collaborative partners and for YouTube such as the hit Rings & Realms series that explores Tolkien’s big-screen adaptations. She lives in Wales with her husband, daughter Hazel, and dog Merlin. After reading The Dark is Rising as a kid, she moved to Wales from the US to study 20 years ago, and delights in adventures, stories, and engaging with passionate people on what they love.
