Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti (they/them; @literaturegeek)–exploring the intersections of culture, humanities, & tech that fuel justice, joy, & communal learning.

Recent Posts

I made... screw-letterpress prints with the BookBeetle press

Essay: "(Re)connecting DH on Social Media"

Want an overview of what folks have been doing to rebuild DH community online post-Twitter? A report on an ACH working group’s work and analysis of the current social media landscape.

I made... a zine: Speedweve for Mending (#DHmakes Methodz Zines #1)

Essay: "Supporting healthy work-chore practices, as a manager"

Some ways I try to support colleagues in the lab around work practices similar to the ones shared in my earlier two posts.

Previous Posts

2024

"Some email, Slack, task, and note-taking hacks for academic work, Pt 2: Slack, tasks, meeting notes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"I'm making... Neon ghost book covers"
"I'm making... Bluesky follower/following/list management tool using coding"
"I made... a Provisional Press tabletop letterpress printing press"
"I made... a Hobonichi-Techno-style notebook using bookbinding methods"
"Getting through academic work chores, so you can get to better stuff (Pt. 1: Email)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Zine rack design" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"I'm making... a year-long letterpress printing apprenticeship"
"🧵Data Physicalization Resources" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"What is #DHMakes?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The beauty of it" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Indicating zine-making effort? quality? format? type" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"5 things learned making my first complete zine" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Zine Bakery: catalog as dataset research" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"I made... a zine: *Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case*"
Update: I (have long been working as, but now have the title of) Director of the Scholar's Lab
"I made... it through a 4-day letterpress printing intensive"
"Zine Bakery: research roadmap" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Zine Bakery: topical zine collections" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital humanities makerspace research" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Update: DH2024 conference talk
Update: accepted DH2024 mini-conference
"I made... a new image-based data visualization"
"I made... a new research project & associated website: ZineBakery.com"
"Making your command line a tiny bit better" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Update: published a peer-reviewed article
"Scraping a webpage's list of linked files using wget" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Resin casting projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Update: published a peer-reviewed article
"Metadata for Zine Collecting" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"I made... a public zine distro! (physical zine distribution space)"

2023

"DH pedagogies beyond the classroom" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Jekyll content interfaces: a review of tools for friendlier authoring/editing on collaborative Jekyll sites" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Getting started with Bluesky: social media scholarly community" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Themed reading lists as neat card decks! A tutorial and design discussion" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Learning Mastodon (and LinkedIn!?), leaving Twitter" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Lessons From The Lab: Designing Community-Forward Spaces" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"What is a job directing a humanities research center like?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Career resource roundup for humanities graduate students" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2021

"Building Community And Generosity In The Context Of Graduate Education" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2020

"When They Came Down: Participating in crowdsourced documentation of racist statue removals" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Year of Book Blogging: thinking through a bookish project as potentially scary, just, and/or good" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"#GenerousThinking: A month of daily thinking toward a more generous academia" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"A digital humanist can have a little bread, as a treat" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Software licensing as feminist & queer digital humanities practice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2019

"Celebrating The Scholars' Lab Year of Blogging" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital humanities job talks: some case studies" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Personal guidelines for DH journal and conference reviewing" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"How We Talk and Write about DH Jobs" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Running a collaborative blog: A glossary for GitHub & Jekyll" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"A digital humanities management charter (part 1)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Archiving DH, Part 4: Solutions (co-written with Ammon Shepherd and Lauren Work)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"What about blogging keeps me blogging?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH Archiving: Data Policies for Small DH Projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"20% Time: Why we make self-initiated research & development part of the job" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"ScholarsLab.org website relaunch!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"A Moderate Proposal: Healthier Systems for Running Online Digital Humanities Communities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH Dissertation to Director: Notes connecting my student and staff experiences" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Automating Webpage & Tweet Screencaptures" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH archiving on the Scholars' Lab Blog" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2018

"Notes: Workflows to consider before opening a DH lab (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: Wise resource investments for a DH initiative (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: Planning a DH lab's physical location (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: A mission statement for digital humanities (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: DH initiative scope & practice (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: DH initiative working with existing IT expertise (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes: DH hiring ads & HR policy (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Designing a digital humanities initiative at Purdue: all my notes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"I/O: Reading & writing as a digital humanist" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Inclusive tech hiring for a digital humanities community tech engagement role" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Starter kit for considering a DH dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2017

"Making a pneumatic tube messaging system" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Inclusive tech hiring for a digital humanities research developer role" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH Job Talk (for my new role!): Scholars' Lab Managing Director" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"New role: Scholars' Lab Managing Director" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH 2017 Long Paper & Panel Acceptances" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Theming Jekyll: Customizing the look of your GitHub Pages-hosted, Jekyll-generated website" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Buying digital humanities hardware (a proposal for an archival DH 3D scanner and 3D printer)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2016

"Designing a Digital Humanities Initiative: Background & Campus DH Survey" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Meta-DH, or Designing and Building a DH Initiative" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Teaching with Omeka (DH consultation notes)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How (DLF eResearch Network Talk)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses in the New York Times and other recent DH activity" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"How the Digital Humanities uses Slack to support and build a geographically dispersed intellectual community" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The Digital Humanities Slack & Community Design" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Talk" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Advice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses beta closes for 1.0 work" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Lunar dust & tapioca pudding (touring Purdue Archives' aerospace collections)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Talking social web annotation at the Folger Digital Futures panel" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Making it public (a Knight Foundation News Challenge proposal)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Better tech via annotation (using Hypothesis to improve your technical documentation, code, and tutorials)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Peer review for my Programming Historian lesson on Jekyll+GitHub Pages website creation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Service +/- collaboration for digital humanities in the library (a DH job talk)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Humanities Annotates (#DHannotates)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Educase Podcast Interview on Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The Filter Problem at the CODEX Literary Hackathon" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The future of a thing is a return to its values" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2015

"Introducing Static Sites for Digital Humanities Projects (why & what are Jekyll, GitHub, etc.?)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"ACH Executive Council" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Invited Speaking" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"A small sample of cool digital humanities info visualization projects & tools" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital dissertation defended!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2014

"Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses Technical Update: Summer 2014" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"User-testing a digital edition: Getting the feedback you need" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Getting Digital Humanities Done: Schedule, Software, Etc. for a Digital Dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Designing Digital Editions: Inclusivity vs. the Literary Canon" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses: Spring 2014 Tech Update" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Affinity of ideas: Using an affinity wall to map out my digital dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Dissertation Quick Video!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"My Digital Dissertation: Public Humanities, Participatory Design, and Infinite Ulysses" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Notes from an Islandora Installation (aka Islandora Digital Edition Brain Dump)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Choosing the best format for your scholarship: digital dissertation edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Designing a digital scholarly article" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Tutorial: Omeka+Imagemagick Happiness with MAMP Pro 3" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Professionalism for Graduate Students: How to Use Twitter, Blogging, and the Rest of the Web as an Academic" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2013

"A Speculative Experiment, Useful Here and Now?: Tagging the Digital Edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses: Usability Personas and Site Content Ideas" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Values" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Get Your Data into Gephi: A Quick and Basic Tutorial" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
""Suppose there's some connection": Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Bitcurator: Digital Forensics in the Archive" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Thinking Through Making: More Precedents for Scholarly Experimentation as Critical Work" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital dissertation deliverables (and how to complete them!)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"#OWOT a Week: Introducing Serendip-o-matic, a Tool for Digital Humanities Discovery and Delight" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Cat GIFs & Mrkgnao: Ulysses, Reddit, and What Digital Editions Can Learn from Online Communities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Digital Disputations: A Tech Review of Digital Editing and Commentary Projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
""Exquisite handicraft" or "book ghouls"? Grangerizing and Book Materiality" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses: Project Precedents and Caveats" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Experimental Editions: Digital Editions as Methodological Prototypes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses: Planned Features for a Participatory Edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Infinite Ulysses: What if we build a digital edition and everyone shows up?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"O rocks, again: More Info Visualization of James Joyce's Ulysses (Bloomsday 2013 Project)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
""Electronic Literature after Flash": Weirding Credible Digital Platforms to Tell Stories" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Building for the Great Conversation: Participatory Digital Design & the Urgency of the Public Humanities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"My Digital Humanities Dissertation: Building Code, Design, and Games for Textual Knowledge and Participation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Monograph Writing Isn't the Only Scholarly Act: Chronicle Interview on Digital Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2012

"Info Dump: Humanities Ph.D. Exams Advice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Recovering Teena Rochfort-Smith: Complex Edition Prototype, Female Victorian Editor" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Living Editions: What Seminars Can Teach Us About Building Digital Editions" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Book Ghouls: Grangerizing as Book Hacking's Black Sheep" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Testing DH Sites: More on Use, Usability, and Usefulness" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH User Testing: What’s Been Done? (Adding to a Growing List of Resources)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The Amateur in the Archive: Toward a Wider Audience for Your DH Project" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"DH Evaluation: A Four-Part Series on User Testing Your DH Work" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Quick and Dirty DH User Testing" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"The beauty of DH: We're all continually n00bs at something" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"View DHQ: Getting Started with Gephi for DH Vis (Part II of II)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"View DHQ: Visualizing Data from Digital Humanities Quarterly (Part I of II)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"O rocks! Tell it to us in plain images (A THATCamp/Bloomsday Visualization)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"What’s Up with Digital Editing Tools? (Summer Conference Edition)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Mapping the Flow of Knowledge with "View DHQ": ACH Microgrant Award" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"“How Can You Love a Work If You Don't Know It?”: Six Lessons on Digital Editing from Team MARKUP" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Useful prosthetics, pretty metaphors? (and more on DH tools)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Ulysses the Video Game and Anachronistic Linati Schema!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Think Like an Editor: Five Disciplinary Approaches to Editing Pedagogy (Society for Textual Scholarship Panel Abstract)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"THATCamp Games: The DH and Games Unconference" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
"Hack Books: Hack What?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2011

"Digital Dos Passos" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2010

"Bringing ARGs into the Classroom" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2009

"Online Archives: The Deena Larsen Collection and Omeka" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti