The DHLC is embarking on a new partnership with Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, which is designed to bolster the journal’s Voices and Perspective section. Scholarly Editing is a peer-reviewed, open-access annual whose editors seek to recover texts and artifacts that honor the lives of and contributions from and about Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; women; LGBTQ+ individuals; and peoples of the Global South. Journal content includes essays, micro-editions, interviews, reviews of print and digital editions and projects, and teaching materials. The journal’s editorial board is committed to attracting scholars and recovery practitioners from diverse fields. We intend to amplify work from a broad range of contributors, including participants in new and established projects, individuals at any stage of their career, and those beyond the academy who engage in public history or otherwise hope to advance the creation of public knowledge. The journal’s eclectic, multidisciplinary approach and community-centric aspirations make it an invaluable resource for the wide variety of individuals interested in recovery—including but not restricted to educators, students, interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, editors, information professionals, digital humanists, local genealogists, community groups, and families seeking ancestors.
Noelle A. Baker, editor of the journal, explained, “The journal’s editorial board is delighted to partner with the Michigan State University Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab, along with Dr. Julian C. Chambliss and Ph.D. candidate Cheyenne Symonette, who will serve as Voices and Perspectives Editor and Associate Editor, respectively. The “Voices and Perspectives” section of the journal publishes public-facing, multi-modal conversations that are meant in part to attract a wide range of recovery practitioners in collaboration with communities and will often feature lives, works, and achievements that have been effaced or misrepresented. This collaboration offers tremendous value to Scholarly Editing because of the synchronicities between the statements of purpose of both the journal and the DHLC and the editor-collaborators’ areas of interest. We value the DHLC for its focus on interdisciplinarity and on student leadership and growth, and for its public-facing approach. We feel deeply privileged to work with Dr. Chambliss, whose interdisciplinary scholarship; expertise in multiple fields; and public history projects highlighting US identity, community, and power resonate with the journal’s interests. Likewise, we welcome and esteem the ways in which Ms. Symonette’s research on race, gender, and sexuality in the Atlantic world will shape the interviews in the journal’s “Voices and Perspectives” section.”
This is a unique opportunity to bolster the DHLC’s ongoing engagement with digital humanities projects that explore the experiences of marginalized people. You can learn more about the journal here.