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Liz Fischer

lfischer@utexas.edu

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of English. 2023.
  Dissertation: "Network Visualization and the Labor of Reference Work: Three Case Studies touching Medieval and Early-Modern Book History"
• 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

• Forthcoming 2025, Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques, Arc Humanities Press
• 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).

Non-academic Employment

• Consultant, AVP, 2023-Present

  • Consulted with GLAM institutions on data, born-digital collections, R&D, and AI evaluation. Project highlights include:
  • Developing research datasets from Library of Congress digital collections, and best-practice recommendations for the maintenance and distribution of datasets.
  • Automating linked data updates and data ingest, and implementing face detection AI for image filtering for a university music archive
  • Improving interoperability between leading IIIF-AV players in support of Mellon-funded DH research
  • Designing interface for NER correction and annotation in the OHMS/Aviary audio-video collections tool suites
  • Migration of digital collections and metadata between asset management systems for libraries, museums, and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Prepared and delivered presentations, trainings, and workshops; conducted user research and defined requirements, synthesized findings into written and visual reports.
  • Reviewed and wrote code, primarily in Python, both as a solo developer and part of a small team. Guided developer team direction on projects and wrote documentation.
  • Spearheaded Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism working group.
  • Maintained and implemented updates to company website, including WordPress theme customization and bug fixes, and key page redesigns.

• Associate Consultant, AVP, 2022-2023

• Technical Writer, SolarWinds, 2017-2018

Research Appointments

• Project Manager & Technical Lead, Atlas of a Medieval Life: The Itineraries of Roger de Breynton, University of Texas at Austin, 2019-Present
• Graduate Research Assistant, Audiovisual Metadata Platform Pilot Development (AMPPD), University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with Indiana University Libraries, 2018-2020.
• 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.

Teaching Appointments

• Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
  • E 388M: Digital Research Lab: Medieval
• Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 2021 - 2022.
  • 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, 2020-2020.
  • 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

Presentations

• Project Management for DH, Initiative for Digital Humanities, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024.
• "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.
• 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, MARC