The Forum for Digital Culture supports digital arts and humanities at the University of Chicago as a unit within the Division of the Arts & Humanities.

The Forum’s three pillars are:

• • Research support for faculty projects through all stages of computational work, from the initial acquisition of data to its long-term preservation.
  • Publishing research data and other digital products of faculty projects on the Web in a durable, citable, and financially sustainable way.
  • Teaching digital skills and tools via Digital Studies courses taught by Forum staff and by training and supervising students doing computational work as research assistants on faculty projects.

Staff and Resources

The staff of the Forum for Digital Culture all have an academic background in the humanities or a related discipline as well as computational expertise. They use and develop software for scholarly research on texts, images, maps, music, cinema, video games, and other cultural media. Practical engagement with coding and data equips them to understand digital computing and engage in discussion and critique of its cultural, social, and philosophical implications.

In addition to teaching courses for the academic programs in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History, the staff of the Forum provide consultation and support for faculty projects, drawing on the many computational resources available at the University of Chicago. The Forum also provides an Online Publication Service for digital materials created or compiled by researchers and artists to make them permanently accessible and reusable.

Contact Us

Please send email to digitalculture@uchicago.edu for more information about the Forum for Digital Culture or to schedule a project consultation.

For information about the Digital Studies degree program and courses, see https://digitalstudies.uchicago.edu or send email to digitalstudies@uchicago.edu.