Contact AmandaVisconti@Gmail.com to arrange a keynote or invited speaking for your institution, including via Zoom! I’m a friendly & enthusiastic public panelist and speaker, and also enjoy leading consultation meetings with external groups looking to start or improve their digital scholarship or digital graduate education initiatives.
Possible topics include:
- Zines now! Analog & digital zinemaking for urgent community knowledge-sharing, public humanities research, & more
- Digital humanities, digital scholarship, & libraries
- Defining & leading the direction of the digital humanities
- Designing successful pan-university digital scholarship initiatives
- Library futures for interdisciplinary, innovative digital scholarship
- Scholarly community design
- Building thriving knowledge communities through social justice & joy
- Starting, sustaining, improving research centers & labs
- Virtual & hybrid scholarly events & communities
- Book arts for public, equitable, joyful, & digital work
- Book-adjacent data science
- Critical & creative humanities makerspaces
- Social media for academics & public humanities
- Public reach, networking, collabpration, & open educational resources
- Effective research blogging
- Moving from Twitter to Bluesky (based on my widely shared guide)
- Digital humanities dissertations & graduate education
- For faculty: advising & evaluating
- For students: completing pioneering graduate scholarship
- Digital humanities theory & practice
- Web design & code for shared spaces of public & academic reading, interpretation, learning conversation
- Ethical design for public humanities & archival teaching
- Nurturing & effective peer writing & DH project review
Keynote & invited talk highlights
- University of Chicago “Library Futures” Series
- UCLA; Brown University; NYU; CUNY; Washington & Lee University; Vanderbilt University; Cal Poly Humboldt; 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; Metropolitan New York Library Council
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, book arts practice, & 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.
I’m fascinated by non-gatekept approaches to creative, joyful, communal knowledge-making & -sharing.
Designing creative and joyful communities for colearning, using nontraditional forms of scholarly communication, & the social justice advocacy necessary for everyone to have the chance to take part in knowledge work. Making tutorial zines, data science coding & designing web sites, letterpress printing, book-adjancent crafting with retro tech & color & light, blogging… my scholarly and creative work all converge on how we share & build on what we know, and how we make certain that’s something everyone can be part of.
