Since the early 1980s, Elizabeth Lambert's publications have ranged from news releases about physics and engineering to scholarly articles on literature and film. She has worked as a writer or editor for organizations including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Coastal Zone Management, the Institute for Women and Technology, and Five Colleges, Inc., all of which called for making science understandable to non-scientist. She has also worked for Mount Holyoke College as a grant writer and for the University of Massachusetts as the managing editor of an academic journal and a physics-writing instructor. Her work has been published in several magazines and journals, including Madison Wisconsin's In-Business Magazine and Twentieth-Century Literature. Her articles on science and literature have won awards from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she earned a Ph.D. in English, and from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where she is an associate professor of English. She also has an M.A. in journalism and has taught writing, literature, and film studies in colleges and universities for 20 years. Either despite or because of the academic credentials, she enjoys noting the humorously ridiculous aspect of almost any situation, a tendency that has recently helped her launch a career in filmmaking.