Editors’ Note

With this issue, our editorial team expands to include incoming submissions editor Kristen Guest and book review editor Vanessa Warne. Our warm thanks go to Judith Mitchell for her many years of service as book review editor. Mary Elizabeth Leighton, who has served since 2006 as our submissions editor, will join Lisa Surridge in the role of managing editor. Our new team now meets weekly over Skype, and we are delighted that this team now represents three western Canadian universities.

We are pleased to welcome new advisory board members Stephen Arata, Simon Avery, Catherine Delyfer, Christine Ferguson, Joan Greer, James Hanley, Ian Hesketh, Grace Kehler, Barbara Leckie, Diana Maltz, Teresa Mangum, Britta Martens, Jill Matus, Erika Rappaport, Matthew Rubery, and Martha Stoddard-Holmes. We bid farewell with thanks to those who are rotating off the advisory board: Suzy Anger, Julie Codell, Marysa Demoor, Dennis Denisoff, Donald E. Hall, Judith Johnston, Angus McLaren, Claudia Nelson, Francis O’Gorman, Matthew Rowlinson, Joanne Shattock, Peter Sinnema, Marjorie Stone, Jenny Bourne Taylor, and Judith Walkowitz.

This special issue on digital Victorians presents research at the leading edge of Victorian digital humanities scholarship. Articles examine the impact of new reading practices and information technology on our understanding of Victorian texts, from reading Sherlock Holmes stories on the Kindle to reading serial novels as data sets. To complement this focus on new media, our special forum focuses on Victorian media, from Edison’s special box to song settings for Victorian poems.