
Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti is Managing Director of the Scholars’ Lab. They hold a Literature Ph.D. from the University of Maryland focused on the digital humanities and textual scholarship, and an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan focused on DH and human-computer interaction. They have also worked as a professional web developer for over a decade, with specialization in online knowledge-building communities, meaningful crowdsourcing websites, and reading/annotation interfaces.
Amanda currently contributes to the scholarship of experimental and digital humanities policy and practice, bringing both critical-practical approaches to infrastructure and community design underlying scholarly innovation. They are an enthusiastic blogger, both on their LiteratureGeek.com blog and on the Scholars’ Lab blog, as well as a popular speaker and advisor for institutions exploring digital and expermental scholarship initiatives.
They serve as an appointed officer (and previously an elected representative) of the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH) executive council, the founder and ongoing administrator of the 3k-member Digital Humanities Slack, Digital Ethnic Futures Mentor, and an appointed Technical Advisory Board member for Humanities Commons. They previously served as an appointed member of the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Information Technology Committee; and as an editor, technical board member, and then ombudsperson for The Programming Historian.
Amanda’s 2015 dissertation (Dr.AmandaVisconti.com) was the first humanities dissertation to fully acknowledge digital methods (code, design, user testing, blogging, no chapters) as scholarship by treating them as the dissertation instead of addenda to traditional written chapters. The focus of their dissertation was creating the participatory digital edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses InfiniteUlysses.com, which attracted over 12,000 unique visitors in its first few weeks of open beta and was cited in The New York Times in July 2016.
All Posts by Amanda Wyatt
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Jekyll content interfaces: a review of tools for friendlier authoring/editing on collabrorative Jekyll sites09.18.2023
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Getting started with Bluesky: social media scholarly community08.22.2023
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Themed reading lists as neat card decks! A tutorial and design discussion06.27.2023
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Lessons From The Lab: Designing Community-Forward Spaces04.14.2023
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Building Community And Generosity In The Context Of Graduate Education07.14.2021
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When They Came Down: Participating in crowdsourced documentation of racist statue removals06.30.2020
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Year of Book Blogging: thinking through a bookish project as potentially scary, just, and/or good02.26.2020
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#GenerousThinking: A month of daily thinking toward a more generous academia02.13.2020
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A digital humanist can have a little bread, as a treat01.29.2020
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Software licensing as feminist & queer digital humanities practice01.22.2020
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Celebrating a Year of Blogging12.17.2019
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Digital Humanities Job Talks: Some Case Studies12.16.2019
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Personal guidelines for DH journal and conference reviewing12.02.2019
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How We Talk and Write about DH Jobs10.09.2019
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Running a collaborative blog: A glossary for GitHub & Jekyll08.12.2019
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A management charter (part 1)06.30.2019
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Archiving DH Part 4 - Solutions06.28.2019
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What about blogging keeps me blogging?06.02.2019
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Archiving DH Part 3: The Long View04.30.2019
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20% Time: Why we make self-initiated research & development part of the job04.26.2019
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Archiving DH Part 2: The Problem in Detail03.11.2019
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A Moderate Proposal: Healthier Systems for Running Online Digital Humanities Communities02.27.2019
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DH Dissertation to Director: Notes connecting my student and staff experiences02.21.2019
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Welcome to our new Community Advocate, Beth Mitchell!01.31.2019
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Automating Webpage & Tweet Screencaptures01.30.2019
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Website relaunch!01.15.2019
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Announcing our GIS Workshop Series for Spring 201901.14.2019
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I/O: Reading & writing as a digital humanist09.27.2018
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Job opening: Come advocate for our users!09.24.2018
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Starter kit for considering a DH dissertation02.28.2018
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Welcome new DH Developer Zoe LeBlanc!09.18.2017
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Job Opening: Curious about focusing on DH development?06.27.2017
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Disrupt the Humanities? (Managing Director job talk)02.28.2017