Join us as we chat with Amanda Licastro about the future of multidimensional scholarship!

Increasingly scholars are using immersive technologies to provide enhanced access to cultural heritage objects, as well as designing immersive environments as pedagogical spaces for the recreation of historical and literary sites. How can we create, sustain, and preserve 3D and 360 degree scholarship created with 3D scanning and modeling technologies, or created in VR and AR environments, when our current platforms do not adequately support both viewing and long term storage of these immersive technologies? What happens when these spaces are built on or for third party platforms that will inevitably shift their models or cease to exist? What services can hosting sites like Reclaim Hosting offer academic institutions as we navigate the unanswerable questions multidimensional research poses to the world of digital scholarship?

Amanda Licastro (she/her) is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Swarthmore College, the pedagogical director of the Book Traces project, and is an Andrew W. Mellon Junior Fellow in Critical Bibliography. Amanda serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and serves on several committees for the Modern Language Association. Her research explores the intersection of technology and writing, including book history, dystopian literature, and digital humanities. You can find Amanda’s work in her co-edited collection, Composition and Big Data, as well as in Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, and Digital Reading and Writing in Composition Studies.