Rate My Professor Jessica Lieberman

Jessica Lieberman serves as Associate Professor of Humanities Computing Design in the Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the Program Co-Director for the BS in Humanities, Computing, and Design. Lieberman holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the University of Michigan. She has been affiliated with the Department of Performing Arts and previously held the title of assistant professor of visual culture. Her teaching includes DHSS-200: DHSS Seminar, a professional development course for majors; DHSS-488: Special Topics, a practicum in digital humanities; DHSS-489 and DHSS-490: Capstone sequence, where students develop digital humanities projects with clients, research agendas, prototypes, and rationales; and VISL-387: Imag(in)ing the City, exploring urban visual culture through interpretative strategies, field trips, literature, films, and events.

Lieberman’s scholarship focuses on visual culture and traumatic images. She authored “Traumatic Images” in the journal photographies (2008). Her book Becoming Visible, published by RIT Press, documents her diagnosis with stage IIIB Hodgkin’s lymphoma and lupus in 1998 as a University of Michigan graduate student, featuring 30 photographs taken covertly during chemotherapy, alongside medical scans and objects; it was exhibited at Gallery r in 2013 with a book launch. She co-authored “Steampunk Rochester” in the Games+Learning+Society Conference 11.0 Proceedings (2016) and “Changing an Institutional Environment through Appreciative Inquiry: Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Liberal Arts” (2015). Lieberman advises the Computing, Humanities and Design Club and Tunnel Visionaries Club, supports the HCD CoLab facility, and guides student projects including TunnelVision murals, the HCD Hub, and the Virtual Aquarium: Atlas of Elasmobranchs.