Job summary
Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti (they/them) is Director of the Scholars’ Lab and a leader in international digital humanities scholarship, including through elected and appointed roles in international scholarly orgs. They hold a DH Literature Ph.D., Information M.S., and professional experience across multiple related fields: scholar, librarian, archivist, web developer, UX researcher, book artist, zine author.
Professional profile
Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti holds a doctorate in literature from the University of Maryland, where they successful defended a unique digital humanities dissertation that consisted of design, code, research blogging, and community building, rather than written chapters, to explore a space mixing public and scholarly readings of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The dissertation received the university’s 2015 Distinguished Dissertation Award.
They previously worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Purdue University Libraries, and before that worked in various roles 2009-2015 at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), a digital humanities think tank. They have over a decade of experience in professional digital humanities web development and UX.
They also hold a master’s degree from the University of Michigan School of Information with a focus on digital humanities human-computer interaction.
They created and manages the Digital Humanities Slack, a themed set of chat rooms hosting conversations among over 2,000 digital humanities practitioners; and served on both the MLA Committee for Information Technology and the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
They blog about their research at LiteratureGeek.com and you can read more at AmandaVisconti.com.