Lisa Swanstrom

Elizabeth Swanstrom is an American researcher in literature, media theory and the digital humanities. She is associate professor of English at the University of Utah and co-editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies. She is the author of Animal, Vegetable, Digital, a Co-Editor of Science Fiction studies, and a Co-Editor of the Electronic Book Review. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2008, an M.P.W. in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, and a B.A. in Classics from New College of Florida. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Umeå University's HUMlab in northern Sweden, and the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities in the English Department at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

Career Her research includes science fiction, natural history, media theory, and the digital humanities. She examines texts, art installations, and cultural artifacts, including video games "born digital".

She is an associate professor at the University of Utah. Before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, she was an assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Here she received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create CELL: a search engine for electronic literature.

Swanstrom is a member of the developmental and editorial team of The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa. She writes short fiction and serves as co-editor for the online literary journal Sunspinner.

Honors and awards Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize for Animal, Vegetable, Digital. (2014) Shortlist, Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Award (2010) AWP Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction for The Divers.

Works Swanstrom, Elizabeth. Animal, Vegetable, Digital: Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, March 2016

Small Screen Fictions with Astrid Ensslin and Pawel Frelik, published by Paradoxa A Field Guide to Artificial Nature(s) (2018) uses a web framework to create a visualization of the texts weather, climate, geography, animals, and plants to show relationships between texts and environment.

She has edited journals, including a 2013 stint as a guest editor for the Digital Humanities Quarterly as well as currently editing the Electronic Book Review and Science Fiction Studies.