Forthcoming from IOPN: DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History

IOPN is excited to announce the upcoming publication of DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History, edited by Spencer Keralis and Cait Coker. This collection of essays examines how digital humanities and book history are both potentially expansive tools for advocacy, activism, and recovery work, and extends an invitation to readers to reflect on power, privilege, and potential in both fields.

I wanted to create space for folks who often find themselves on the margins of academic disciplines…I also wanted to highlight work that demystified and critiqued the essential infrastructure of DH and book history: digital collections, the processes of mass digitization, and the often-hidden labor that supports those systems. – Spencer Keralis

The collection came out of the virtual conference DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Humanities and Book History held in 2022, and both reflects on the themes of the event and creates space for new voices to contribute to ongoing dialogues within the fields of digital humanities and history of the book.

People often forget that books are media, and increasingly digital media. Bibliography – literally the study of books – and digital humanities are absolutely entwined in today’s scholarship. This collection is a glimpse of all the possibilities open for exploration! – Cait Coker

DH+BH consists of 8 essays written and edited by fourteen contributors working in digital humanities, digital scholarship, and book history. The first essay is a manifesto calling for boldness in enacting feminist recovery work. The next two essays reflect on the limitations of representation in digital collections. Part 3 consists of three essays exploring how various digital methodologies can enrich book history. Lastly, Part 4 consists of two final essays reflecting on interdisciplinary approaches to book history scholarship.

DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History will be published by IOPN under the Publishing Without Walls imprint in Summer 2025.