Leadership in experimental & digital humanities research infrastructure & community-building.

Contact AmandaVisconti@Gmail.com to arrange a keynote or invited speaking for your institution.

High-level topics matching the goals for your event

  • Defining & leading the direction of the digital humanities
  • Designing successful pan-university digital scholarship initiatives
  • Library futures for interdisciplinary, innovative digital scholarship
  • Building thriving knowledge communities through social justice & joy
  • Advising, evaluating, & completing pioneering digital humanities dissertations
  • Book-adjacent data & making research
  • Digital interface design for shared spaces of public & academic reading, interpretation, learning conversation

Keynote & invited talk highlights

  • University of Chicago “Library Futures” Series
  • UCLA; Brown University; NYU; CUNY; Washington & Lee University; Vanderbilt University; Universities of Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, Nebraska, and Victoria
  • MIT Media Lab; Digital Library Federation eResearch Network; Folger Shakespeare Institute; Northeastern University NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

Scholarly expertise

  • Designing, building, studying, and sustaining just and joyful knowledge communities at the intersections of tech, culture, and social justice
  • DIY scholcomm (scholarly communications), including via zines, blogging, social media, and web development
  • Experimental+digital humanities+library futures, including strategy and infrastructure
  • Book-adjacent data science, human-computer interaction (HCI), and making
  • Transgender text analysis, book arts, and bibliography

See my Leadership and Research pages for scholarship examples & further possible speaking topics.

Photo of Amanda Wyatt Visconti presenting virtually at the DH 2024 conference
Presenting virtually at the DH 2024 conference
Screenshot of a digital grid of photos of zine front covers; it's very colorful, and around 200 zine covers are shown
A “digital quilt” visualization of the coevrs of zines in my Zine Bakery collection and database (ZineBakery.com).