Call for Proposals: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches
August 1, 2025
Digital Humanities Quarterly invites authors to submit abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). 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. Some methods show great promise, providing new modes of discoverability and analysis. Many raise questions and concerns along ethical and sociotechnical dimensions. There are also conceptual challenges and areas of application that are distinctive to the digital humanities. Given the volume of submissions and inquiries surrounding AI and the digital humanities, the DHQ editors have decided to devote a special issue to this topic in particular.
We are interested in a wide-ranging view of AI in the digital humanities context, including:
- Different methodologies and applications, including those that look beyond generative AI
- Critical perspectives on AI, including ethical, political, and cultural critiques
- Responsible and transparent AI practices and frameworks in DH contexts
- Specific use cases that open the door for new DH-relevant possibilities
- Case studies within the digital humanities and in GLAM institutions, such as responsible AI frameworks used to operationalize AI
- Specific and grounded applications including but not limited to: translation, transcription, OCR correction, summarization, captioning, text to speech, and multi-modal approaches.
- Experimental pieces that make use of AI in their creation (These should also include an author’s statement/contextual material commenting on the experiment and why the selected form is essential to the submission.)
Submissions should meet the following requirements:
- The submission must have a direct connection to the digital humanities.
- The submission should focus on research, rather than pedagogy (a second CFP centered on AI and pedagogy will be forthcoming later this year).
- Except for experimental submissions, the submission must be human-authored (AI may only be used for grammar and spell-checking within the writing process).
- 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 September 15, 2025. Please send the following to editors@digitalhumanities.org:
- An abstract of no more than 500 words
- The name(s) and affiliations of the author(s)
- Email address for the corresponding author
Authors will be notified in January 2026 and invited to submit full papers by April 2026, 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 Special Issue”).
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