Editors' Note: September 2024

Welcome to the September 2024 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities. This month, we are excited to share projects drawn from our open submissions process. Our issue features an array of digital humanities methods from projects around the world.

We feature:

• Lost Water! Remainscape?, a digital literary project on water scarcity in Coimbatore, India, directed by Shanmugapriya T and reviewed by Deena Larsen and Ram Prakash D;

• Nuestra Orilla, a podcast telling stories from residents of lower Atrato, Colombia, led by Catalina Muñoz-Rojas and reviewed by Maria José Afanador Llach;

• Rendering Revolution, an interdisciplinary project that uses fashion to trace the aesthetic, social, and political reverberations of the Haitian Revolution, directed by Siobhan Meï and Jonathan Square and reviewed by Charlotte Hammond; and

• Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by Anna Gibson and Adam Grener, and reviewed by Beverly Park Rilett.

This month’s journey around the world opens in southern India, specifically Coimbatore, where residents have been experiencing the effects of water scarcity. Lost Water! Remainscape? tells their story in an interactive digital literary narrative that takes users through the history and present of the water tanks guarded by elders and the ecological precarity faced by the community. We then travel to Colombia’s lower Atrato region, where a researcher at the Universidad de los Andes has been working with community members to produce a podcast that tells their stories. Like Lost Water! Remainscape?, this community-engaged project showcases stories of the region from the perspectives of its residents, elevating the voices of those in an area that is often talked about but rarely heard. Our next stop is in Haiti, the topic of an inventive approach to using social media to challenge conventional narratives about the country. Using Instagram and Facebook, Rendering Revolutions shares insights on Haitian histories and presents with public audiences, while an accompanying website provides additional scholarly contexts and greater sustainability for the project. Finally, we disembark in the UK, where scholars of Charles Dickens have researched his notes on several novels and sought to make the notes available to others who may not be able to travel for archival research. The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an invaluable resource for Dickens scholars, as well as for others contemplating how to make insights from archives more accessible.

We hope you enjoy visiting with these projects!

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