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Welcome to my web site. My name is Elizabeth Swanstrom (my friends call me Lisa), and I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Umeå University’s HUMlab. Before coming to Sweden, I was the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities in the English Department at Brandeis University. I completed my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in June 2008 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and my research interests include twentieth-century literature, digital culture, the literature of the fantastic, (new) media theory, and science fiction.
At HUMlab I am working on a project entitled “Digital Landscapes,” which considers computer-generated simulations of natural spaces in light of literary and artistic tradition. A more thorough description of this project is available on the HUMlab blog, and an introductory seminar on the topic is on the HUMlab stream. I am also developing a project entitled “Self.net,” which traces the way that the emergence of network technology influenced expressions of subjectivity during the dot-com boom (and bust) of the mid nineties to the turn of the century. In 2011 I will join the English Department at Florida Atlantic University as an Assistant Professor of Science Fiction / Fantasy and the Digital Humanities. You can contact me at swanstro@gmail.com |
Brandeis University
Mediums and Messages (Comparative Literature 163A) This course explores how human beings and human bodies participate in expressive communication technology, digital or otherwise.
Introducing (New) Media (English 48A) This course offers a broad orientation to issues in the digital humanities.
Self.net (Humanities 125A / 6320) This course examines how network technologies of the current age can be seen as co-extensive with representations of identity in contemporary aesthetic works.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Comparative Literature 30C Major Works of European Literature from the Romantic to the contemporary period
Comparative Literature 146 “Robots,” an upper division course focusing on intersections between literature and technology
Writing 50 “Technology and Society,” Writing and the Research Process
English 10 “Data Made Flesh or Flesh Turned Code? Issues of Identity in the Digital Age,” Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information
Writing 2 “Introduction to Academic Writing”
A complete summary of my teaching experience is available on my c.v.