Biography

Dr Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen is a scholar in digital humanities and design, with research specialising in accessible digital infrastructure, AI-generated synthetic media, and democratic resilience. Since 2019, she has been Lecturer at Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication (K3), Faculty of Culture and Society, teaching across the programmes of Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, and Media Studies and Communications at Bachelor's and Master's levels. Over ten years across Malmö University and the Royal Danish Academy, she has supervised 75 bachelor’s and 12 master’s theses and served as examiner for 75 bachelor's thesis projects. Since 2023, she has served as Co-Programme Director of the Graphic Design Bachelor's programme. She is Principal Investigator of the Deepfake Democracy Project, a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) within the Sustainable Digitalisation Research Centre (SDRC) at Malmö University, and serves as VIP Programme Coordinator for K3 and SDRC. In 2025, she was awarded a competitive STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellowship for a guest researcher and lecturer position at UCLA, Autumn 2026. Her award-winning book design for ABC (Carlsen, 2014) received Denmark’s Best Designed Book Award and was adapted into theatre, film, and musical productions.

Her PhD in Digital Humanities ( University of London’s School of Advanced Study, 2021 – 2025) her dissertation produced the first methodological framework for accessible digital catalogue raisonnés. The dissertation, 'Designing an Accessible and Sustainable Digital Catalogue Raisonné: Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Case of Ted Stamm,' examines catalogue raisonné development across art history, design, digital humanities, and textual scholarship. A monograph based on this research, Digital Catalogues Raisonnés: Design, Access, and Sustainability in Art Historical Scholarship, is under contract with Routledge in the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities series (expected 2028). Supervisors included Jane Winters, Christopher Ohge, and Francesca Benatti; external examiners were Gabriel Bodard and Kristen Schuster. Mid-term reviewers included Richard Gartner (Warburg Library) and Tiffany Bell (Editor, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin and Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonnés). The thesis was defended in March 2025 and is deposited in SAS Space.

Fox-Jensen was appointed External Expert by Denmark’s Ministry of Education and Research (UFM, 2026 – 2030) across six subject areas: Communication, Interactive Media, Information Science, Computer Science, Ancient History, and Cultural Heritage Studies. Since 2022, she has served on the advisory board of The Greater Sum Foundation. In 2025, she served as an invited evaluator for SAS’s RESHAPED Doctoral Centre Research Training initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Her research advances across two tracks. Track One, specialist research in design and digital humanities, is anchored in the Ted Stamm Catalogue Raisonné (2011 – present) and the forthcoming Routledge monograph. Track Two, urgent research on AI and democratic resilience, is led through the Deepfake Democracy Project, which examines how AI-generated video deepfakes deployed in electoral and political communication threaten democratic resilience in European and Nordic contexts. She leads an interdisciplinary team of seven faculty and nine student researchers drawn from design, computer science, media communications, global political studies, and criminology.

Fox-Jensen is affiliated with multiple international research networks, including Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF), Sustainable Digitalisation Research Centre (SDRC), Humanities Research Group, K3 Heritage Research Group, Future Society and Democracy in Europe Research Group (CEMES), the Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN), the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS, University of Copenhagen), the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association (CRSA), and the International Catalogue Raisonné Association (ICRA).

Previously, she held teaching positions at the Royal Danish Academy (formerly KADK), Copenhagen (2016 – 2019) and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2004 – 2010).

Fox-Jensen has served as Lead Editor of the Ted Stamm Catalogue Raisonné since 2011. That work spans international collaborations with the University of Chicago, Smart Museum, and Hunter College (CUNY). Research is supported by the Jeff Metcalf Internship Program at the University of Chicago (2022 – present), through which twelve research interns have been trained in archival digitisation and metadata development, with over 7,500 archival documents digitised to date. From 2014 to 2017, she also provided exhibition design and publication support for Hunter College Art Galleries across the Leubsdorf Gallery and 205 Hudson Gallery. She is lead researcher and co-author of the forthcoming monograph Ted Stamm: Participatory-Based Works, with Professor Graham Bader (Rice University), Philip Kelleher (University of Houston–Clear Lake), Isa Rosario (Yale), and Per Haubro Jensen (Ted Stamm Estate).

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