Updated August 17, 2026 to reflect new application submission date and ACH DHQ Liaison.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). The new Editor in Chief will serve for a five-year renewable term. Collaborative multi-editor and multi-institution arrangements are welcome.
Responsibilities include:
- Recruiting, coordinating, and leading the editorial and production teams
- Setting strategic direction and serving as liaison to sponsors and the host institution
- Managing staff, finances, and grants
- Representing the journal publicly and communicating with authors, special issue editors, and the broader academic community
Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30 January 8, 2027 and should include:
- The candidate(s)' qualifications, editorial philosophy, and vision for DHQ (up to 3 pages)
- A description of available institutional support (i.e., managing editor funding, production hosting) (up to 3 pages)
- Tentative confirmation of support from relevant institutional leadership
Selection criteria include strategic vision and alignment with ACH and DHQ’s missions, degree of institutional support, and publishing and project management experience.
Timeline
The search committee will meet with shortlisted candidates in summer 2026 early spring 2027 to discuss proposals in depth. We aim to select a candidate by December 2026 and begin transition planning in 2027, and complete the transition by summer 2028.
About DHQ
DHQ was founded in 2005 by ADHO and ACH to be the associations’ outward-facing journal, serving an ambassadorial role to a wide audience in the humanities and other DH-adjacent domains. It has been published since 2007 on a “diamond” open-access model, with no charges to either readers or authors. Funding for the journal’s production work is provided by ACH and the institutional host(s), with additional subvention from ADHO. ACH is grateful to Julia Flanders for over two decades of innovative leadership and dedicated service to the journal. For more about the mission and values of ACH and DHQ, visit ACH.org and dhq.digitalhumanities.org/.
DHQ’s core philosophy and values include a commitment to:
- diamond open access publishing
- an R&D-based approach to journal publishing, centered on open-source development and open data
- inclusive, values-driven, and collaborative methods
- supporting multilingualism
ACH and DHQ welcome inquiries. Please reach out to Julia Flanders (j.flanders@northeastern.edu), DHQ Editor in Chief, and Eduard Arriaga Stefano Morello (smorello@gc.cuny.edu), ACH and DHQ Liaison.