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Liz Fischer

lfischer@utexas.edu

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of English. In progress.
• M.A. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of English. 2019.
• B.A. Stanford University, Department of English. Minors in Computer Science & Digital Humanities. 2017.
  Honors thesis: "Digital Editing Theory in Practice: Matthew Parkers A Testimonie of Antiquitie."

Publications

• Clement, Tanya E., and Liz Fischer. “Audiated Annotation from the Middle Ages to the Open Web.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 015, no. 1 (March 5, 2021).

Teaching Appointments

• Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 2021 - Present.
  • E 314: The Pulitzer Prize
• Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin, 2019 - 2021.
  • RHE 309K: Rhetoric of the Outlaw
  • RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing
• Assistant Instructor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, 2020.
  • INF 315: Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Assistant Instructor, Texas Prison Education Initiative, 2020 - present.
  • RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing
• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 2017 - 2019.
  • E 316L: British Literature
  • E 316M: American Literature
  • E 316N: World Literature

Research Appointments

• Project Manager, Atlas of a Medieval Life: The Itineraries of Roger de Breynton, University of Texas at Austin, 2020-
• Graduate Research Assistant, Audiovisual Metadata Platform Pilot Development (AMPPD), University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with Indiana University Libraries, 2018-.
• Graduate Research Assistant, SpokenWeb, University of Texas at Austin, 2018.
• Research Assistant, CyberText Technologies Project, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, 2017.
• Research Assistant, Global Currents: Cultures of Literary Networks, 1050-1900, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, 2015 to 2017.

Presentations

• "Machine Learning with IIIF," IIIF Texas, The University of North Texas, 2018.
• "Managing Manuscripts," International Medieval Conference, Leeds, UK, 2016.

Fellowships and Awards

• Martin M. Crow Scholarship in Geoffrey Chaucer Studies. The University of Texas at Austin. Awarded to support paleography training. May 2019.
• Hume Humanities Honors Fellowship. Stanford University. Awarded to support thesis research. 2016-2017.

Professional Service

• Editor, Programming Historian. 2022 - Present.
• English Graduate Group Professional Skills Committee. The University of Texas at Austin. 2020.

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, R, Java, C++, SQL
• Software and Platforms: Open Refine, Omeka, Jupyter Notebooks, QGIS, Gephi, Adobe Photoshop/In Design/After Effects, Blender, Zotero, GitHub/Git
• Website-making Stuff: Flask, Jekyll, WordPress, regular ol' HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Data Standards: IIIF, TEI