Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin received her Ph.D. from Yale University, writing her thesis on medieval love narratives from Muslim Spain. She has taught language and literature courses at Fairfield University and Yale. At the same time, she is a systems architect with 20 years of information technology experience, during which time she has developed both academic and administrative systems in a university environment. Currently, along with OACIS, her projects include copy-editing an advanced Arabic reader.