Overview

The Feminist Digital Humanities Community Interest Group provides a space for scholars and practitioners across the UK and Ireland to develop, share, and interrogate feminist approaches to digital humanities research and practice. Feminist DH is best understood as a framework rather than a single method: a commitment to attending to power, situated knowledge, and the politics of data, infrastructure, and representation. It asks how archives and datasets come
to be, whose lives they record and whose they omit, and how computational methods might either reproduce or unsettle existing hierarchies.

The group brings together those working on gender and women’s histories, marginalised communities, and the structural conditions of knowledge production. It supports work spanning network analysis, mapping and counter-cartography, topic modelling, and archival and media praxis, while remaining attentive to the theoretical traditions – feminist theories, postcolonial and queer studies, and critical data approaches – that ground these methods.

Beyond research, the group functions as a community of care and mutual support, recognising that feminist DH is sustained as much by collective practice as by scholarly output. We aim to convene regular events, foster collaboration across institutions and the GLAM sector, build reading and resource networks, and create entry points for those new to the field.

More details to follow soon!

Coordinators

Antonina Puchkovskaia (Kings College London) Jeneen Naji (Maynooth University) & Sharon Webb (University of Sussex).

Contact the group by emailing antonina.puchkovskaia@kcl.ac.uk or sharon.webb@sussex.ac.uk.