About the Journal

Journal History

Digital Literary Studies was founded in November 2014 and published its first and final issue in February of 2016. The journal will continue to be hosted by the Penn State Libraries Open Access and the full content will remain searchable and open to all readers.

The journal was an international peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication with a focus on those aspects of Digital Humanities primarily concerned with literary studies. It published scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources.

Digital Literary Studies was interested in a broad range of scholarly practices and topics, including but not limited to textual analysis, computational stylistics/stylometry, text encoding, computational linguistics, digital resources, publishing, topic modeling, network analysis, electronic literature, critical theory, and literary games. In addition to longer, more traditionally-formed articles, the journal encouraged submissions of  positional papers and articles with a shorter experimental focus, as well as reviews of books and electronic literature, curated electronic texts for peer-review, and thoroughly-documented hermeneutical methods and tools.

Peer Review Process

Digital Literary Studies operated an anonymous review process.

Open Access Policy

Research in Digital Literary Studies is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sponsors

This journal is published with support from the Pennsylvania State University Libraries.

Additional Information

The below publications may be of interest to scholars of Digital Literary Studies:

  • O'Sullivan, James, and Mark Mattson. "Introducing Digital Literary Studies: Building and Sustaining an Open-Access Humanities Publication." Advancing Communication Research & Scholarship, Philadelphia, 28 Apr 2015.
  • O'Sullivan, James. "Introducing Digital Literary Studies", Advancing Research Communciation & Scholarship, April 2015.
    http://arcscon.tumblr.com/post/116396406392/introducing-digital-literary-studies