Elisabeth Hayes is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with joint appointments in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. She brings to gaming research a background in adult education, specifically adult literacy education, gender studies, adult learning and diversity issues.

Her current interests include the intersections of real life and virtual identities and learning, learning in the context of sports games such as Tony Hawk's Underground; digital literacies and implications for the design of e-learning. She is the author or editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Women as Learners (2000) and the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (2000).

She has been on the faculties at Syracuse University and Rutgers University, and was an adult literacy teacher and teacher trainer. She currently spends part of every day (or night) as a Night Elf or Tauren in World of Warcraft.

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