Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures is seeking applications for the position of executive editor.

The executive editor will review submissions, select outside readers, offer editorial feedback to authors, solicit special issues, coordinate with a copy editor, and collaborate with a production manager to edit two issues of the journal per year. Additionally, in consultation with the current editorial board, the executive editor will lead the periodic renewal of the board.

Please note that this position is not remunerated and requires approximately 8–10 hours of work per week, though time demands vary seasonally. The Press supports the executive editor’s travel to one prominent academic conference in the field, typically the International Congress on Medieval Studies, when organizing panels sponsored by the journal.

Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Digital Philology is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of medieval texts and cultures. The journal releases two issues per year and aims to encourage new research that crosses traditional field boundaries, embraces new methods for studying medieval materiality, and advances both applied and theoretical digital humanities. 

The ideal candidate will be an established scholar with a compelling vision for the discipline’s future and, ideally, supported institutionally through release time that enables them to fulfill editorial responsibilities. The incoming editor would assume their position on 15 May 2025 (negotiable).