The Digital Literature Review

Indianapolis, IN

The Digital Literature Review is an undergraduate research journal created by the students of Ball State University. This journal is structured as a year-long class. The first semester is facilitated by a faculty advisor, and in this semester, students study the literature and theory surrounding the journal’s theme for that year; in the first semester, students also choose research topics that they would like to investigate. In the second semester, the students, readily equipped with a large base of theoretical knowledge, submit their research and craft the journal. While the first semester has some faculty intervention so that students might be introduced to the literature and theory, the second semester is almost fully student run. In April, the Digital Literature Review has a gala to launch the journal and present the students’ research. Apart from the actual journal itself, the Digital Literature Review has a robust blog and an active social media presence. This year’s theme for the Digital Literature Review is “Imagining the Post-Apocalypse,” and this presentation is a summary of not only the journal process itself, but also of the theory that students learned in the first semester of class this year.