Tyler Fisher('99)
Magdalen College, University of Oxford, England

After graduating from ECS, Tyler completed a BA in English Literature and a second BA in Spanish at the University of Central Florida in 2003.  He became the first student from that university to attain a Rhodes Scholarship.  This enabled him to pursue graduate studies at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where his Master's and doctoral research concerned metaliterary devices and Counter-Reformation technology in late sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century Spanish poetry.  He was subsequently a Queen Sofia Research Fellow and Lecturer in Spanish at Exeter College, Oxford and for the University of London.

Dr. Fisher's ongoing research projects include a study of autobiographical testimonies from inquisitional trial records, and an analysis of microcuentos or short-short stories by the present-day author Jose' Maria Merino.  His translation of Jose Marti's Ismaelillo was published in 2007.  His translation of a sixteenth-century manual for Spanish inquisitors is forth coming this  year as The Inquisitor's Handbook in the Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics series.

Additionally, Tyler has had numerous poems published in various anthologies and journals.  His biographical account of the combat and captivity experiences of his grandfather, A Medic's War, is also currently available.

Talented in the arts as well as academics, Tyler has produced three recordings featuring original arrangements and compositions on the 56-stringed hammered dulcimer and bowed psaltery. Tyler is truly the  modern equivalent of a Renaissance Man. We, his ECS family,  are proud to call him “A Sentinel” .