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.