Founded in 2019, Reviews in Digital Humanities, edited by Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam, is an open-access journal that offers peer review of digital scholarship. We accept submissions of projects that blend humanistic and technical inquiry in a broad range of methods, disciplines, scopes, and scales. These include but are not limited to: digital archives, multimedia or multimodal scholarship, digital exhibits, visualizations, digital games, and digital tools.

 

To advance the journal’s goal of promoting digital scholarship in critical ethnic, African diaspora, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, and postcolonial studies as well as other systematically-excluded areas of scholarship in digital humanities, we are seeking ten (10) digital humanities practitioners or small teams of 2-3 practitioners to serve as topic editors from 2023-2026.

 

Topics for 2023-2026 are:

 

We recognize that there may be overlap between these topics and will encourage collaboration across them.

 

Demand for peer review of digital projects has outstripped founding editors-in-chief Roopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano’s capacities and their expertise since the journal began publishing in 2020. We have successfully used the “special issue” model to address this but demand continues to grow. Through our work with the Educopia Institute, we have developed a model for topic editors in areas of digital humanities scholarship of high interest to our readers that align with our commitments to systematically-excluded areas of digital humanities. Our new topic editors will expand the capacity and expertise of the editorial team.

 

The topics are like poles of a tent, operating alongside our open submission process to curate issues and expand the reviewer pool for the topic. The journal editors will continue to publish reviews from our open submission process in the topic areas; the topic editor/team model is not intended to replace that. Rather, the topic editors/teams will play a crucial role in scaling the capacity of the journal to continue publishing issues that showcase a diverse range of scholarship by bringing in their expertise to consciously nurture the growth of digital scholarship for their topic.

 

Each topic will have a topic editor/team for a period of three years. After two and half years, the editors will consult with the topic editors/teams for recommendations about whether the topic should be a continued area of focus or be discontinued. Should a topic be continued, we will strive to move it into an imprint model with its own editorial board that operates independently under the umbrella of Reviews in Digital Humanities, with continued editorial support from the journal. We are already experimenting with our imprint model with the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers, ARC, and The Western Historical Quarterly.

 

From 2023-2026, topic editors/teams will be expected to develop two (2) issues per year with a minimum of four (4) reviews per issue and to build out the project and reviewer pools for their topic. They will provide us with names of projects and reviewers. When project overviews and reviews come in, topic editors/teams will provide feedback on these documents. Prior to publication of an issue, they will also provide a brief (max. 500 word) editors’ note to accompany the issue.

 

Topic editors/teams will meet monthly with founding editors-in-chief Roopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano beginning in March 2023 for training in our workflow and processes and will receive additional mentorship and support from our team. Communication with project directors and reviewers for solicitation of overviews and reviews will be handled by our Managing Editors (Tieanna Graphenreed and Stacy Reardon), while production will be handled by our Associate Editor (Miranda Hughes), with support from Risam.

 

Multilingual issues are warmly welcome. Topic editors/teams will have access to a budget to pay reviewers and translators, where appropriate.

 

The position description will be documented in a memorandum of agreement between topic editors/teams and Reviews in Digital Humanities.

 

Training will take place virtually. Topic editors/teams will receive an annual honorarium of $2500 to support their work (approximately 50 hours/year @ 50/hour), to be paid out in two increments after the first and second years. Teams will need to indicate how they wish the annual honorarium be divided.

 

Applicants should have knowledge about digital scholarship in their topic.

 

We warmly welcome applicants from a variety of roles (e.g., librarian, faculty, student, independent scholar, cultural heritage worker) and from all over the world.

 

We welcome applications from individuals or pre-constituted editorial teams (2-3 colleagues interested in sharing a topic editor role and its compensation). In our experience of working together and working with special issue editors, having multiple perspectives and methodological expertise is an asset. Individuals may indicate whether they are interested in working alone or on a team assembled by us for the topic on the application.

 

Individuals can apply for multiple topics if appropriate, though a separate application for each is requested. To ensure a variety of voices are part of the leadership of Reviews in Digital Humanities, individuals will not be selected for more than one role.

 

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Please complete the application form, which requires a brief statement of interest and vision for the topic (300 words max.) and a CV (or a single file with CVs for all proposed team members).

 

Individuals or pre-constituted small teams are welcome to apply, though individuals may indicate whether they are interested in working alone or on a team assembled by us for the topic.

 

Short-listed applicants will be invited for a brief interview to discuss their interest and ask questions in mid-February. Decisions will be announced by March 1, 2023.

 

Reviews in Digital Humanities will be holding three informational webinars to provide more information about the topic editor/team role and application process and to answer questions on Tuesday, January 17th, 9am Eastern, Wednesday, January 18th, 12pm Eastern, and Monday, January 23, 6pm Eastern (translate to your time zone with this converter and click on a date to register). Webinars will be recorded and posted to this page for interested applicants unable to attend.

 

Please direct all inquiries to founding editors-in-chief Roopika Risam (roopika.risam [at] dartmouth [dot] edu) and Jennifer Guiliano (guiliano [at] iupui [dot] edu) with “Reviews Editor” in the subject line.

 

Additional information is available at: https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/topic-editors-wanted#the-long-version