Scholarly Editing has released a call for contributions for volume 40 of the journal, inspired by:
The essays published in Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire (2020) and in The Digital Black Atlantic (2021) emphasize the impacts of decolonial scholarship worldwide, and we are grateful to editors Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla, Roopika Risam, and Kelly Baker Josephs for these contexts. Similarly, “Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene” (2020), a recent issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies edited by Eira Tansey and Robert D. Montoya, interrogates the meanings of archival and library practices in our current cultural moment. Our K-12 Teaching and Learning Sources and Narratives section is likewise influenced by conversations on race and ethnicity in the classical world by Solange Ashby, Debora Heard, and Stuart Tyson Smith and on teaching LGBTQ+ history by Eric Marcus, Deb Fowler, and the team at History Unerased. We are particularly interested in contributions that are in dialogue with these teachers and scholars.
Possible topics that contributions can cover include:
- texts by Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, communities in the Global South, and other marginalized groups;
- the recovery efforts of small-scale projects and micro editions;
- rare or marginal texts;
- texts that dislodge the single-author model;
- oral histories and tales;
- creative works of “re-memory”;
- explorations of ways in which scholarly editions, archives, metadata, and pedagogical recovery projects can promote inclusion, rather than reproducing colonization/marginalization;>
- discussions of the manner in which editors can offer nuance and context to historically famous and canonical figures so that attention is given to their accomplishments as well as the ways in which they violated human rights or ethical norms, or in other ways failed to live up to the representations of them in popular culture;
- cultural artifacts as well as cautionary advice from communities who prefer to preserve their cultural heritages in their own ways;
- and the role that new technologies, social media environments, editorial institutes, and other educational initiatives play in advancing all of the endeavors set forth above.
Contributions are due April 1, 2022.
