Special Issues
Computation and Form, Reconsidered
Published: 10 September 2025
In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
Digital Film Historiography: Challenges of/and Interdisciplinarity
Published: 18 July 2024
This special issue, edited by Malte Hagener and Diana Roig-Sanz, contributes to the discussion of digital film historiography and identifies the main fields of advancement for the discipline.
The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities
Published: 17 June 2024
This Special Issue reflects the work of several scholars in undertaking the collection, digitization, annotation, clustering and analysis of an extensive collection of modern Arabic cultural data.
The World of Shakespeare and Company
Published: 28 May 2024
A special issue, co-published with Modernism/modernity, analyzing data from the "Shakespeare and Company Project," a digital humanities initiative that focuses on Sylvia Beach's bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris.
Wikipedia, Wikidata, and World Literature
Published: 11 May 2023
This special issue on “Wikipedia, Wikidata, and World Literature” revolves around encyclopedic data and interlinked facts that can provide novel sources and tools for studying the reception of world literature.
Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities
Published: 30 December 2022
A special issue dedicated to questions of theory and epistemology related to computational methods in the humanities.
Cultures of E/valuation on the Social Web
Published: 26 February 2022
The aim of the special issue is to present theory-conscious studies of digital cultures of evaluation across a broad range of discourses on the social web.
Narrative Levels: A Shared Task for the Digital Humanities
Published: 15 December 2021
Discussions of annotation guidelines for detecting narrative levels.
Post-45 by the Numbers
Published: 21 April 2021
This special issue foregrounds the affordances of computational methods for the study of contemporary culture and literature.
A Shared Task for the Digital Humanities: Annotating Narrative Levels
Published: 4 August 2020
A Shared Task for the Digital Humanities: Annotating Narrative Levels