Call for Papers: Rethinking Making in the Digital Humanities – Critiques and Pedagogies That Transform

JITP Themed Issue 29: Rethinking Making in the Digital Humanities

Journal: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) Submission Deadline: June 5, 2026 Anticipated Publication: December 2026 (via Manifold Scholarship)

Issue Editors

• Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida
• Asma Neblett, CUNY Graduate Center
• Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Call Overview

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy invites contributions for Themed Issue 29 exploring how critical discourses on making with digital and computing technology can serve as both an approach to and a form of scholarship. Within and beyond digital humanities cultures of makerspaces, pedagogy pop-ups, gamification, and experiential learning, this issue is interested in how making can be rooted in the ethics and politics of collaboration and transformative critiques.

Topics of Interest

Contributions may address questions such as:

• How do making epistemologies shape our use of and approaches to digital tools and techniques?
• How have we come to understand the form, constitution, genealogies, and politics of making that studies the relationship we have with our tools, research and practice fields, and communities?
• Feminist, Queer, and Trans making practices in and beyond the classroom
• Local and culturally situated knowledge practices, including Indigenous practices and practices outside the commonplace Global North reference
• Labor practices as explicit components of the work of community, creativity, and critical engines of remaking worlds
• Critiques of and interventions within colonialist-capitalist infrastructures of making, especially against the exploitation of peoples, material resources, and knowledges in the Global South and Indigenous lands everywhere
• Making as embodying humanistic questions at the core and constituting a frame for addressing, expressing, and mediating community histories and engaged pedagogies
• Making not as a pivot to the so-called age of AI but one as modeling an epistemic view and critique of “the machine”

Submission Guidelines

• Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis
• The journal practices signed peer review (as opposed to anonymous/blind review)
• Expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words or equivalent for timed/other media forms (roughly 20-25 minutes of dialogue, 45 minutes of spoken presentation, etc.)
• Both text-based and multimedia submissions are welcome
• All work should be original and previously unpublished
• Simultaneous submissions will not be considered

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: June 5, 2026
• Publication: December 2026

How to Submit

Please view the submission guidelines on Manifold for information about submitting to the Journal. Contact: admin@jitpedagogy.org

JITP is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the CUNY Graduate Center.