Lisa Spiro, Ph.D.

Director, Digital Media Center and ETRAC (Educational Technology Research and Assessment Cooperative) 

Fondren Library, Rice University

CV [pdf] | Contact Info | Responsibilities| Biography

Contact Information

Lisa's blog: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Digital Research Tools wiki

Lisa on Twitter: lisaspiro

Lisa's research portal: http://www.pageflakes.com/lspiro/

Comment on Lisa's dissertation, in the process of being made into a work of "digital scholarship"

Responsibilities

My responsibilities include:

• overseeing the Digital Media Center
  
• researching innovations in learning science and technology (particularly in developing LESTER, aka the Learning Science and Technology Repository)
• promoting the effective use of technology in teaching, research, and learning
• developing scholarly digital projects such as the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) and the Our Americas Archive
  
• marking up texts and developing stylesheets
• assisting members of the Rice community in scanning, web authoring, audio and video editing, and graphics creation and manipulation
• offering training programs
• contributing to the Digital Library Initiative
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Biography

I am the director of Rice University's Digital Media Center, where I supervise the development of digital projects and manage the university's central computing lab for multimedia projects. I also serve as director of the Educational Technology Research and Assessment Cooperative (ETRAC). I have taught courses on XML, creating digital documentaries, and web authoring, and have helped to organize conferences on copyright, teaching with technology, and advanced technology in the humanities.

Before coming to Rice, I was a Sieg Fellow at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center, where I helped to coordinate the Early American Fiction Project and co-authored a guide to marking-up manuscripts using TEI (the Text Encoding Initiative). I also was managing editor for the online journal Postmodern Culture. I'm a huge music fan, so I co-hosted an Americana radio program for Charlottesville's WTJU; click here to hear honky-tonk guit-steel whiz Junior Brown talk up the show (and pronounce my name correctly, even better than I can.) I earned an MA in English from the University of Virginia and completed my Ph.D. in August of 2002.

For fun, I play banjo (sort of) in a living-room bluegrass band, wrangle my two toddlers, listen obsessively to podcasts, try to coax plants to grow in my garden, and catch up on old New Yorkers while aimlessly peddling an exercise bike.