Elisabeth Hobisch has studied Spanish and French Philology at the University of Graz and the Universidad de Extremadura. In two projects on the digital edition of the European Spectators at the University of Graz she has been responsible for the edition of the Spanish and the French 18th century periodicals.

With a group of young scientists, she acquired funding for two investigation projects on distant reading methods for a multilingual corpus of the 18th century (go!digital Next Generation by the ÖAW and CLARIAH-AT funding call 2020). Since 2020, she is also a core member of the team who developed the Research Project Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Crises funded by the FWF (P 34571-G) with project leader Dr. Yvonne Völkl.
Since 2025, she is PI of the Research Project Spanish Letters. From Spectator Press to Epistolary Novel funded by the FWF (PAT3363224) at Graz University of Technology.

Her main areas of research are Spanish, Latin American and French Literature, 18th Century Literature and Press, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies and Corona Fictions.

In 2016 she was awarded the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Minister of Science, Investigation and Economy for her doctoral thesis on the letters in the Spanish Spectators. La forma epistolar en los espectadores españoles. Características y tipología de las cartas.