Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] This paper presents a systematic review of current research that employ interactive visualization in digital humanities studies to reveal the whole picture of the area.  [Design/Methodology] Fifty interactive visualization studies and projects were collected from representative journals and conferences in the field of digital humanities and major projects of domestic digital humanities research institutions. A new analytical framework and taxonomy was proposed based on existing visualization theory and inductive coding. Based on this framework,the collected literatures were categorized and analyzed from the perspective of user, data, task, visual representation and interactions. [Findings/Conclusion] Our results show that（1）There's a lack of attention to visualizing GLAM data for public users, constructing humanities datasets and assisting annotation with visualizations.（2）The main challenge of interactive visualization design in the current digital humanities is to cope with data uncertainty and improve the performance and availability of interactive visualization for large-scale, multi-dimensional data and complex tasks. [Originality/Value] This paper reveals the research state and future direction of interactive visualization in the field of digital humanities.

Key words: Digital humanities, Interactive visualization, Humanities data, Information visualization, Literature review