Adrian S. Wisnicki is a Professor of English, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), and the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has research and teaching interests in artificial intelligence (AI), contemporary technology, digital humanities, world literatures in English, nineteenth-century British literature, and archival and cultural heritage studies.
Wisnicki’s scholarship on AI embraces a range of topics, including questions of policy and disclosure, multi-agent systems and social media, and the impact of AI and technology on contemporary society. He actively promotes critical AI literacy through his university courses.
His courses include: “Artificial Intelligence, the Human, Society” (2026), “AI and Big Tech, Impact and Safety” (2025), “AI, Agents, Superintelligence” (2025), “Human-AI Interaction” (2024), “Artificial Intelligence: Right Now, Tomorrow, and Yesterday” (2023-2024), “Social Media and Big Tech” (2022), and “AI in Fiction, Film, and Culture” (2021).
To develop his work, Wisnicki draws on a wide range of networks, with collaborations involving scholars in the the United States, Western Europe, and East and Southern Africa. To date, he has received considerable funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), and other organizations.
Wisnicki’s digital humanities projects include Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (2020-), One More Voice (2020-), Livingstone Online (2013-2020), and the Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (2011-2019). In 2015, the NEH named the last of these projects as one of its “Great Projects Past and Present,” and the project also featured in “The Lost Diary of David Livingsone” (2013), an episode of the PBS series “Secrets of the Dead.”
Wisnicki sits on the advisory boards of the British Association for Victorian Studies and the North American Victorian Studies Association and is also an honorary lifetime member of Société Française des Études Victoriennes et Édouardiennes, thereby bringing a transatlantic approach to his disciplinary work.
In 2025, Wisnicki received the President’s Award from the North American Victorian Studies Association and the Star Professor Award from the English Graduate Student Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.