Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Guest editors: Amanda Licastro, Ben Lee, Julia Flanders, Vanesa Cañete Jurado, Nirmala Menon, John Walsh, Haining Wang, Joel Lee, Doreen Chen
Abstracts due: August 1, 2026
Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the implications for digital humanities pedagogy. Abstracts are due August 1, 2026 to editors@digitalhumanities.org. Please use the subject header: “DHQ AI Pedagogy Special Issue.”
We are interested in a wide-ranging view of AI in the digital humanities pedagogical context, including:
- Critical perspectives on teaching (and teaching with) AI in a digital humanities context, including ethical, political, and cultural critiques.
- Critical examinations of AI systems themselves, from the perspective of digital humanities pedagogical methods and critical frameworks.
- Responsible and transparent AI practices and frameworks in DH pedagogical contexts
- Specific use cases that open the door for new DH-relevant teaching possibilities. This can include the evaluation, adoption, contextualization, resistance, and refusal of AI tools for teaching purposes.
- Case studies addressing specific sites and scenarios for digital humanities pedagogy (including those that go beyond formal classroom settings), grounded in theory and prior work, and in replicable, scalable data and practices.
- Examinations of the impact of AI on digital humanities pedagogical methods focused specifically on building/making.
- Examination of issues of assessment, labor, and motivation in relation to AI integration in the digital humanities classroom.
Submissions should meet the following requirements:
- The submission must have a direct connection to the digital humanities.
- The submission should focus on pedagogy.
- The submission must be human-authored. AI may be used for grammar and spell-checking within the writing process, and for machine translation. Authors should include a statement describing the use of any AI tools.
- We are particularly interested in articles that will have continued value for readers over time, rather than those focused on specific technologies that may quickly become dated.
We ask that prospective authors submit 500-word abstracts for review by August 1, 2026. Authors will be notified in November 2026 and invited to submit full papers by March 2027, which will be peer reviewed. A full timeline will be provided to authors upon the invitation to contribute a full paper.
For questions related to this call, please contact the DHQ editors at: editors@digitalhumanities.org. Please use the subject header: “DHQ AI Pedagogy Special Issue.”
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https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/cfps.html
