BRANCHing out: Victorian studies and the digital humanities

This article illustrates how the digital humanities, as the field pertains to Victorian studies, have been evolving from an early, skeuomorphic approach to the Internet; how new technologies offer us a potential escape from the current constraints on our research and publishing, while offering new approaches to Victorian studies; and how institutional structures need to evolve to allow for effective change. The main examples offered are RaVoN (ravonjournal.org), NINES (nines.org), and BRANCH (branchcollective.org).