Meet Bella
2026 Cohort
Bella Nissel grew up outside of the Pittsburgh area in a small suburb. She studied Business Administration & Management at Chatham University for a year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh. During her time at Chatham University, she gained experience as a project manager focused on potential green energy campus improvements.
At Pitt, Bella Studied Digital Narrative and Interactive Design (DNID) with a focus on video game design. This program is designed to allow students to focus on both English narrative and today’s technological platforms. She gained experience with multiple coding languages and different developmental platforms. The combination of English and Technology allowed her to bring different literatures to life using various digital formats.
After graduating Pitt, she completed her Master’s at Carnegie Mellon University in Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS). During this program, she focused on that intersection further, which included making user experience contributions to Shakespeare VR’s website. She is currently looking forward to bridging the gap between literature and technological learnings in CMU’s Computational Cultural Studies (CCS) PhD program.