CFP: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy, JITP Themed Issue

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy invites submissions for an upcoming themed issue on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy. Issue editors Patricia Belen (Fordham University), Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Gregory Palermo (Emory University), Danica Savonick (SUNY Cortland), and Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia) pose the following questions to potential contributors:

• What does it mean to teach DH with minimal infrastructure?
• How can we teach DH and digital literacy in ways that address the often inadequate material working and learning conditions of faculty, staff, and students?
• How can we take tactical approaches to teaching amidst unjust and often woefully underfunded institutions, while also advocating for structural change, and a world in which everyone has the resources and support to undertake every DH project they dream of?
• Might we sometimes need to use proprietary technologies (for example, using existing tools like Google Docs rather than building our own more ethical alternatives) to enact liberatory and transformative learning?
• How might we use minimalist approaches for maximal pedagogical ends?

The call notes that submissions should aim to balance theoretical approaches with practical considerations; manuscripts are expected to be approximately 5,000 words or equivalent for non-textual submissions (~25 minutes of dialogue or ~45 minutes of spoken presentation). Submissions might engage with the following topics:

• Low-cost, low-tech, low barriers of access and entry approaches to teaching and learning in DH
• Strategies for embracing limitations, constraints, or scarcity as opportunities for intentional, student-centered pedagogy
• Situated DH pedagogies: intersectional and embodied teaching methods that account for differences in race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability, and practices that consider local contexts and needs, particularities of a situation, and material conditions of teaching and learning
• Approaches to DH in particular settings such as community colleges, HBCUs, HSIs, high schools, and community organizations
• Minimalist DH as a mode of resistance to austerity, censorship, or other attacks on education and academic freedom
• Adaptive strategies for operating with limited human infrastructure and accessing funding schemes that typically prioritize large-scale digital humanities projects over minimalist approaches
• Resource costs of the pressures to incorporate artificial intelligence in the classroom
• The limitations of minimalist work

Submissions of full articles are due June 15, 2025, with a slated publication date of December 2025. Read the full call for submissions at the JITP website.