36.2030, Calls: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - Special Issue “Beyond Automation: Writer Identity in the GenAI Era” (Jrnl)

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Date: 01-Jul-2025
From: Digital Studies in Language and Literature [dsll at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - Special Issue “Beyond Automation: Writer Identity in the GenAI Era” (Jrnl)


Journal: Digital Studies in Language and Literature
Call Deadline: 25-Aug-2025

This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites
work that explores how writer identity is shaped, challenged, or
reclaimed in the GenAI era. We particularly highlight the impact of
GenAI on how identity is expressed in written discourse across
academic, creative, multilingual, and educational contexts. This
includes how generative tools influence features such as authorial
voice, stylistic idiosyncrasy, and linguistic diversity as elements
often overwritten by the standardising tendencies of GenAI outputs. We
are especially interested in contributions that interrogate how such
tendencies affect writers from underrepresented linguistic and
cultural backgrounds.
Guest editor: Jim McKinley (University College London) –
j.mckinley at ucl.ac.uk
Special Issue Information:
This DSLL Special Issue is calling for submissions on the theme
“Beyond Automation: Writer Identity in the GenAI Era.” We seek
empirical, theoretical, and practice-informed studies that examine how
GenAI reshapes writing practices and challenges traditional notions of
authorship, especially in contexts where linguistic plurality and
individual expression are central.
Submissions may address a range of contexts and topics, including:
- Writer identity in second language writing with GenAI support
- GenAI and authorial voice in academic writing
- Impact of AI-generated feedback on genre and identity performance
- Linguistic and rhetorical implications of GenAI “polishing” in
multilingual texts
- Reclaiming identity and resisting standardisation in AI-mediated
writing
- Classroom-based research on teaching voice and agency in the GenAI
era
- Language ideologies embedded in GenAI training data and outputs
- Creative or translingual writing practices shaped by or resisting
GenAI
We particularly encourage submissions from researchers working with
marginalised or linguistically diverse populations, where the erasure
or distortion of voice through automation may have outsized
implications.
Submission Instructions:
Proposed abstracts should be submitted to the guest editor for initial
consideration. Please send a 500-word abstract describing previously
unpublished empirical (not conceptual) work. Do not include author
name(s) in the abstract document. In a separate document, include each
author’s name, affiliation, contact information, and a 50-word
biographical statement.
If abstracts are accepted, authors will be invited to submit
full-length articles for possible inclusion. All submissions will
undergo double-blind peer review.
Timeline:
Abstracts due to guest editor: 25 August 2025
Short-listed abstracts announced: 15 September 2025
Full manuscript submission deadline: 15 January 2026
Peer review completion: 15 March 2026
Final revisions due: 15 May 2026
Issue publication is scheduled for June 2026
General information on Digital Studies in Language and Literature:
Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL) is a peer-reviewed,
interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the
intersection of digital technology, language, and literature.
Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access
through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, so your
research will be freely available for all to read and download.
Please visit the DSLL Homepage (www.degruyter.com/dsll) for further
information.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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