About
Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the advancement and promotion of editorial theory, practice, and pedagogy. Revived in 2020, the journal was edited by Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell from 2012 to 2017. From 1979 to 2012, the Association for Documentary Editing published the journal's predecessor, Documentary Editing, a print publication that evolved from a newsletter format to a quarterly and then annual journal.
The editorial board of Scholarly Editing invite essays, reviews of print and digital editions, and small-scale editions of understudied authors and texts that reflect our diverse and multifaceted cultural heritages.
The journal intends to represent contributions from all countries and cultures, across disciplines and from outside the academy, including but not restricted to educators, community groups, local genealogists, families seeking ancestors, researchers, scholars, historians, archivists, curators, editors, information professionals, students, and digital humanists. We particularly welcome contributions from and about Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; women; LGBTQ+ individuals; and the people and cultures of the Global South.
Essays
In addition to projects that illustrate the traditional range of editorial methodologies and practices, we welcome those that feature rare or marginal texts, texts that dislodge the single-author model, oral histories and tales, community recovery, and creative works of “rememory.” Such contributions may also explore the digital tools and contexts that enhance this work.
Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record
Editing primary sources for publication has extensive origins in multiple disciplines, as is evident from the membership of the Association for Documentary Editing, a multidisciplinary organization that includes scholars from history, philosophy, literature, and musicology in the United States and abroad. We invite scholars, digital humanists, librarians, students, archivists, educators, and community members from outside these groups to contribute brief essays (1,250-4,000 words) about their experiences of uncovering and sustaining the cultural record as a set of practices, as a field, or as an act of recovery of silenced voices. In issuing this invitation, we look forward to publishing a set of short essays that will demonstrate diversities of practice, perspective, and emphasis. Our goal is to explore capaciously the contexts of knowledge production as theorized by Roopika Risam in New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (2019). Central questions include “how projects are designed, how material in them is framed, how data in them is managed, and what forms of labor are being used to create them.”
Review Essays
Scholarly Editing reviews letterpress and digital editions, digital projects, and the digital tools that enhance recovery of, and expand access to, primary source materials. In accordance with our Statement of Purpose, we review materials that amplify the work of diverse voices and celebrate the contributions of underrepresented and silenced communities. While we do not accept unsolicited reviews, we welcome proposals from readers who would like to serve as reviewers as well as recommendations of work that may be appropriate for review.
College and University Classroom Essays
We invite all explorations of the intersections between recovery and pedagogy at the university level. Potential areas of inquiry may include theoretical approaches to teaching scholarly editing and other forms of digital recovery, the use of primary source materials in the classroom and in public outreach programs, teaching with print editions and/or born-digital projects, and training student members of editorial projects. Collaborative essays are welcome, including those that advance their argument through case studies and with materials such as assignments, course syllabi, and excerpts from students' work (with appropriate permission).
Micro-Editions
Scholarly Editing is a home to sustainable small-scale editions of interesting and understudied texts. Such editions may range from a single document to 130 short documents or to two variants of a single text. We encourage those who wish to propose a micro-edition to consult the micro-editions editor Raffaele Viglianti in advance of forwarding their proposals.
Voices and Perspectives: Interviews and Conversations
We publish transcripts of conversations and interviews with recovery practitioners. We invite those who wish to propose conversations and interviews to consult the editor in chief in advance of forwarding their proposals.
Editorial Board
Noelle A. Baker, Editor in Chief and Acting Editor, Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record
Julian C. Chambliss, Voices and Perspectives Editor
Eagan Dean, Essays Co-Editor
Lona Dearmont, Copy Editor
Silvia Glick, Consulting Editor and Reviews Editor
Ateeb Gul, Essays Co-Editor
Jenifer Ishee, Assistant Managing Editor
Serenity Sutherland, College and University Classrooms Editor
Cheyenne Symonette, Voices and Perspectives Associate Editor
Robert Riter, Managing Editor
Raffaele Viglianti, Technical Editor and Micro-Editions Editor
Advisory Board
Heather Bamford, George Washington University
Dale S. Brenneman, University of Arizona; Office of Ethnohistorical Research, Arizona State Museum
Erica Cavanaugh, University of Virginia
Mark Cheathem, Cumberland University; Papers of Martin Van Buren
Thomas Coens, University of Tennessee; Papers of Andrew Jackson
James Cummings, Newcastle University
Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Co-Director of SIUE’s IRIS Center
Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M University
Tom Elliott, New York University; Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Co-editor, Scholarly Editing (2012-2017)
Robb Haberman, Columbia University; John Jay Papers
Katherine D. Harris, San José State University; Co-editor, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Willa Cather Archive; Co-editor, Scholarly Editing (2012-2017)
Patricia Larson Kalayjian, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Letters of American Author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867): An Online Edition
Verna Kale, The Pennsylvania State University; The Hemingway Letters Project
Bob Karachuk, University of Mary Washington; Papers of James Monroe
Sara Martin, Massachusetts Historical Society; The Adams Papers
Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; The Walt Whitman Archive; The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
Wesley Raabe, Kent State University; Textual Editor, The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe
David Ramsey, University of West Florida; Papers of Roger Brooke Taney
Gimena del Rio Riande, CONICET
Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College
Jennifer Stertzer, University of Virginia; Director, Center for Digital Editing; Director, Washington Papers
Nikolaus Wasmoen, University of Buffalo
Adrian S. Wisnicki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Director, Livingstone Online
Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University; Center for Henry James Studies