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The staff of the Forum for Digital Culture engage in both teaching and research support, drawing on their education as scholars and their training in computational methods, and working with a faculty advisory board that represents every discipline in the arts and humanities.

Forum Staff

The staff of the Forum for Digital Culture are engaged in both research and teaching. They are not only experts in the computational methods used in the arts and humanities but also well versed in humanities scholarship, so they understand how scholars work and how they think about their data.

The Forum’s staff support faculty projects via the CORPUS research data service; they teach courses in the Digital Studies M.A. program; and they advise M.A. thesis projects. By working closely with both faculty and students, they are well placed to provide training and supervision for student research assistants employed on faculty projects.

To contact the staff of the Forum, please send email to digitalculture@uchicago.edu.

David Schloen

Faculty Director

Miller Prosser

Director of Publications

Sandra Schloen

Director of Technology

Jeffrey Tharsen

Associate Director of Technology; M.A. Thesis Counselor

Brooke Luetgert

Associate Director of Digital Studies

Carmen Caswell

Senior Research Analyst

Annemarie Catania

Editor

Firat Ciftci

Software Engineer

Molly Laumakis

Data Migration Specialist

Andrew Wright

Senior Research Analyst

ARTFL Project and Textual Optics Lab

The long-running ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) and associated Textual Optics Lab are affiliated with the Forum for Digital Culture and co-located in the same building. ARTFL supports research projects using its PhiloLogic platform. ARTFL personnel also teach Digital Studies courses.

Robert Morrissey

Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature; Director, ARTFL Project

Hoyt Long

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations; Director,Textual Optics Lab

Clovis Gladstone

Senior Research Associate; Associate Director, ARTFL Project

Charles Cooney

Senior Project Coordinator, ARTFL Project

MADD Center

The staff of the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center (MADD) in the John Crerar Library are also affiliated with the Forum for Digital Culture and collaborate with it. Two primary components of the MADD Center are the Weston Game Lab and the Hack Arts Lab.

Patrick Jagoda

William Rainey Harper Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies; Director, Weston Game Lab

Ashlyn Sparrow

Assistant Director, Weston Game Lab

Faculty Advisory Board

A broadly based Faculty Advisory Board oversees the Forum for Digital Culture. The members of this board are drawn from 17 different departments in the University of Chicago, representing a wide range of disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as computer science. They are interested in the impact of digital technology on thought and culture and they have experience in using or creating software for research and teaching.