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        Date: 2025-04-08 10:42:21+00:00
        From: James O'Sullivan <james.osullivan@ucc.ie>
        Subject: Call for Chapters: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Analytics

Call for Chapters

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Analytics
https://jamesosullivan.github.io/culturalanalytics.html

Proposals are invited for chapters to be included in The Bloomsbury Handbook of
Cultural Analytics, a major new reference work that aims to consolidate and
extend the field of cultural analytics at a time of considerable methodological
innovation and critical reflection.

Cultural analytics—defined broadly as the computational and data-driven analysis
of cultural materials—has matured from a set of experimental practices into a
dynamic and increasingly central approach across the humanities and interpretive
social sciences. This handbook seeks to capture the richness of this moment: to
provide scholars, students, and practitioners with a comprehensive, critical,
and forward-looking account of the field.

Contributions are welcome from across disciplines, institutions, and
methodological traditions, including, but not limited to digital humanities,
literary and cultural studies, art history, film and media studies, sociology,
linguistics, and computational social science.

Chapters that focus on detailing specific methods are particularly welcome, but
contributions are expected to adopt critical perspectives, rather than offering
‘how-to’ guides or focusing exclusively on case studies and accounts of project-
based applications. Chapters should interrogate the epistemological,
methodological, disciplinary, or infrastructural dimensions of cultural
analytics. Prospective authors should consider The Bloomsbury Handbook to the
Digital Humanities as an example of what is being sought. The aim is to offer
durable, field-defining insights that speak beyond individual projects or tools.
Essays will serve as entry points into individual topics and, with this in mind,
should be framed broadly. The essay title should speak to the essay’s breadth of
coverage.
Topics of interest may include:

  1.  Methodologies in cultural analytics (including but not limited to text
mining, network analysis, visualisation, stylometry, NLP, machine learning, AI);
  2.  Applications of cultural analytics to literature, film, art, music, and
other media types;
  3.  Theoretical and epistemological questions raised by computational
approaches;
  4.  Intersectionality, race, gender, and other critical lenses in
computational cultural study;
  5.  Infrastructures, platforms, and tools;
  6.  Pedagogy and curriculum design for teaching cultural analytics;
  7.  Ethics, bias, and the politics of data;
  8.  Histories and genealogies of the field;
  9.  Case studies of collaborative or interdisciplinary research;
  10.
Cultural analytics in global, decolonial, or non-Western contexts.

The volume is under consideration with Bloomsbury Academic with the aim of
forming part of their prestigious handbooks series. Bloomsbury Handbooks is a
series of single-volume reference works which map the parameters of a discipline
or sub-discipline and present the ‘state-of-the-art’ in terms of research. Each
Handbook offers a systematic and structured range of specially commissioned
essays reflecting on the history, methodologies, research methods, current
debates and future of a particular field of research. Bloomsbury Handbooks
provide researchers and graduate students with both cutting-edge perspectives on
perennial questions and authoritative overviews of the history of research.

Proposal guidelines

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, along with a short
biographical statement to james.osullivan@ucc.ie by May 9th, 2025. Informal
enquiries prior to submission are welcome.

Finals chapters will range from approximately 4,000–6,000 words, with
manuscripts due in late 2025.


James O'Sullivan M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., H.Dip.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, University College Cork

Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.42 , University College Cork
Postal address: O'Rahilly Building 2.22, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF


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