Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer reviewed journal archived by the US Library of Congress and distributed by the University of Virginia Press. The journal is committed to all aspects of textual scholarship and recovery, includes the preservation of texts and artifacts that represent and celebrate the lives of and contributions from and about Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; women; LGBTQ+ individuals; and peoples of the Global South. In addition to projects that dislodge the single-author model, oral histories, community recovery, creative works of “rememory,” and the decolonizing of artistic works, archives, records, and editions for the discoverability of racialized and underrepresented stories and cultural artifacts.
The content published in the journal includes essays; micro-editions; reviews of print and digital editions, digital projects, and tools that enhance recovery work; teaching materials; and transcripts of interviews and conversations. The journal’s eclectic, multidisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the theory, practices, and pedagogy of recovery and editing, including educators, students, researchers, scholars, historians, archivists, editors, information professionals, digital humanists, local genealogists, and community members.
Noelle A. Baker is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, revived in 2020. Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell served as Co-editors-in-Chief 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 to a quarterly, and then to an annual journal. At this time, issues of Documentary Editing cannot be posted online due to copyright concerns.
