Spanish women in cultural circles: rewriting history from the perspective of digital humanities

2026-01-12

Spanish women in cultural circles: rewriting history from the perspective of digital humanities

Monographic issue of the Boletín de la Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo (CIII; 2027)

Coordinated by Dolores Romero López and Patricia García Sánchez-Migallón

Throughout the modern and contemporary eras, women who write, paint, illustrate, compose, research, translate, or mediate between languages ​​and cultures have woven active networks of sociability that sustain and transform cultural and historical circuits. Little by little, letters, editorial collaborations, membership in associations, and affective and professional ties have been discovered, articulating veritable systems for the circulation of ideas. However, many of these circuits, both national and international—often scattered across archives, libraries, newspaper collections, or private holdings—remain largely invisible and have not been systematically analyzed. The CLARIAH-CM project is coordinating the monograph “Spanish Women in Cultural Circuits: Rewriting History from the Digital Humanities”—to be published in the Bulletin of the Menéndez Pelayo Library—with the aim of exploring these cultural constellations and their national and/or international historical connections. Of particular interest is the study of the networks that support the production, mediation, and reception of the works of women writers, painters, illustrators, composers, performing artists, editors, critics, translators, and cultural managers, as well as the digital methodologies that allow these networks to be mapped and represented. The Boletín de la Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo will publish color graphics if necessary.

Within this context, a call for articles is issued that, from different disciplines, address the following topics using analytical methodologies specific to the Digital Humanities:

  • Epistolary, familial, professional, and affective networks that reveal women as creators and cultural mediators who influence historical processes.
  • Literary gatherings, cultural centers, journals, publishing houses, galleries, associations, and other spaces of female sociability.
  • Interartistic collaborations among women creators within their historical context. • The role of translators, critics, editors, librarians, and other mediators in the transnational circulation of works and authors.
  • Trajectories of exile, migration, and travel and their impact on the configuration of cultural networks.
  • Archival projects, databases, maps, and digital visualizations of women's networks.

Submissions must be written in Spanish and adhere to the journal's guidelines, available on the Menéndez Pelayo Library Bulletin website. Articles may be submitted until October 30, 2027, and will undergo blind peer review.