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

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