About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Digital Literary Studies publishes scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources.

Topics of interest to Digital Literary Studies include, but are not limited to:

  • Textual Analysis
  • Computational Stylistics / Stylometry
  • Text Encoding
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Digital Resources
  • Publishing
  • Topic Modeling
  • Network Analysis
  • Electronic Literature
  • Critical Theory
  • Literary Games

Digital Literary Studies is interested in a broad range of scholarly practices. In addition to more traditional long-form research articles, shorter positional and quantitative papers are also welcome.

Contributors may submit curated electronic texts for peer review. For example, scholars may submit an encoded collection of poetry, which will be reviewed, and stored in our institutional repository.

Furthermore, we are interested in reviewing well-documented hermeneutical methods and tools, where the tools are a form of interpretation.

Any digital project with a literary focus, whether that be a digital edition, tool, or otherwise, may be considered for review.

Peer Review Process

Digital Literary Studies operates a blind review process.

Authors: Please ensure that your submission is appropriate for blind review. Any author names, or information indicating who the author of an article may be, should be removed. This includes document metadata.

Open Access Policy

Authors retain the copyright to their work, and may redistribute or republish these materials as desired. However, authors are asked to cite Digital Literary Studies where appropriate. Please see http://journals.psu.edu/dls/about/submissions#copyrightNotice for our complete Copyright Notice.

Creative Commons License

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

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://journals.psu.edu/dls/about/editorialPolicies#openAccessPolicy.

Readers are free to copy and and redistribute the material in any medium or format, without modifications. These freedoms cannot be revoked, provided that the following terms are adhered to:

AttributionYou must give appropriate credit to Digital Literary Studies, and to the author(s) of specific contributions.
NonCommercial — You may not use any material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use material from Digital Literary Studies.

Sponsors

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Journal History

Digital Literary Studies was founded in November 2014.