People
Director and Associate Director
To contact the Digital Studies staff, please send email to digitalstudies@uchicago.edu.
Helma Dik
Faculty Director
Brooke Luetgert
Associate Director
Part-time Lecturers
The following people are based in other units of the University of Chicago and also teach in the Digital Studies program.
Crystal Beiersdorfer
Lecturer in Media Arts and Design, Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies
Clovis Gladstone
Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
Cameron Mankin
Assistant Instructional Professor, Dept. of Cinema & Media Studies
Miller Prosser
Director of Online Publications, Forum for Digital Culture
Jeffrey Tharsen
Associate Director of Technology, Forum for Digital Culture
Faculty Advisory Board
A broadly based Faculty Advisory Board oversees the Digital Studies curriculum. 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.
Niall Atkinson
Associate Professor of Art History and Romance Languages & Literatures
Lenore Grenoble
John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics
Travis Jackson
Associate Professor of Music
Patrick Jagoda
William Rainey Harper Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies
Emily Kern
Assistant Professor of History (History of Science)
Hoyt Long
Professor of Japanese Literature
Ellen MacKay
Associate Professor of English and Theater & Performance Studies
Robert Morrissey
Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature
Ken Nakagaki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Constantine Nakassis
Professor of Anthropology
Haun Saussy
University Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought
David Schloen
John A. Wilson Professor of Archaeology and Digital Studies
Adam Shaw
Associate Senior Instructional Professor of Computer Science
Mehrnoush Soroush
Assistant Professor of Landscape Archaeology
Jeffrey Stackert
Professor of Hebrew Bible
Ulrike Stark
Professor of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Malte Willer
Professor of Philosophy
