Born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida, Tyler Fisher studied at the University of Central Florida (BA English Literature, BA Spanish), where he became UCF’s first Rhodes Scholar. The scholarship enabled him to do his master’s and doctoral studies in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford (MPhil, MA, DPhil). He was subsequently Queen Sofía Research Fellow and Lecturer in Spanish at Exeter College, Oxford, and later held permanent posts at the University of London (Royal Holloway and University College London). After 15 years studying and teaching in the UK, he returned to UCF, where he directed Latin American Studies (BA and minor) and served as the Burnett Honors College Faculty Fellow for Global Scholarship Advising.

As a product and proponent of Honors education in Florida’s State University System, Dr. Fisher champions undergraduate research and creative inquiry, rigorous study, thoughtful service, and international engagement. His own research interests encompass questions of orality, ritual, translation, and the intersections of critical, creative practices; and he has presented research papers by invitation at the universities of Cambridge, Coimbra, Glasgow, Nazarbayev, Santo Domingo, Soran, and Ulster. His book-length translations of poetry include José Martí’s Ismaelillo (Wings Press 2007) and Federico García Lorca’s The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin 2018).