Naila Butt (she/her) is a Digital Media Specialist and tutor at CUNY City Tech Writing Center. She holds a BS in Professional and Technical Writing and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she explores her research interests in play theory, game studies, and pedagogy. 

She is the project manager of the Pretty Terrifying Project (working name), which she founded to collect data on recurring feminist themes and structures within the horror video game genre. She builds on feminist and horror/game studies frameworks to examine video games, which are often underexamined as cultural and media artifacts. Her methods involve web-scraping data from Wikipedia, Category: Horror video games, and conducting both distant and close reads to collect and categorize the data. In collaboration with her team, Naila aims to refine the dataset and create visualizations that help translate and interpret its complex findings, opening new avenues of study and data for feminist, games, and media scholarship.