Journal of Victorian Culture Digital Forum Call for Submissions 

The Journal of Victorian Culture Digital Forum provides an indispensable guide to how our perceptions and understandings of the nineteenth century change as we encounter it in digital form. It brings together interested users, expert proponents, and the deeply sceptical to present a range of perspectives upon the difference that digital approaches (including digitisation, digital humanities, and data sciences) might make to the field. Previous issues have included maps and mapping, transnational archives, and literacy. 

In recognition of the fact that digital humanities is broad in scope and that innovative approaches are being newly developed across Victorian Studies, our aim with this call is to improve the diversity of disciplines and approaches represented in the Forum. We therefore invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, collections and archives studies, digital humanities, geography, history, history of science and computing, literature, museology, music analysis, musicology, performance and cultural industries, theatre studies, transnational and indigenous studies.

Contributions should be research-led and exemplify good practice in the use and/or creation of digital tools and technologies in pursuit of original research in global nineteenth-century studies. Topics might include (but are not limited to): 

·       digital analysis of social, political, or cultural trends in the nineteenth-century 

·       digitally-led analysis of text, image, audio, or object 

·       reports from digital projects (construction, lessons learned, use in pedagogy/research) 

·       digitally-led pedagogy 

·       exploration of digital resources (history, creation, use) 

·       reflections on digital humanities and Victorian studies, past and future 

·       theoretical implications of digital humanities in nineteenth-century studies 

·       digitisation and digital publishing (creation of digital editions or datasets) 

·       global, transnational, historical networks 

·       transnational and indigenous histories  

·       the creation of software relevant to Victorian Studies 

The usual format is papers of 3000 words in length; the JVC submission guidelines can be found here [academic.oup.com]. The Forum is published online, and so digital media (e.g. audio or video) can be included. All submissions will be peer reviewed, and all essays featured in the Forum are freely available to read online.  

We also welcome proposals for guest-edited fora: the usual format of these is a 1000-word introduction and 3x 3000-word articles. To suggest a guest-edited forum, please submit a proposal of no more than 1000 words, including abstracts for the articles.

This is an ongoing call with a rolling deadline.  

For more information, or to discuss a paper or forum idea, please email the co-editors: Emily Bell (e.j.l.bell@leeds.ac.uk) and Jo Taylor (joanna.taylor@manchester.ac.uk).