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New Professor of Digital Humanities with a focal area of Artificial Intelligence
The University Council has elected Prof. Dr. Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal as Professor of Digital Humanities with a focal area of Artificial Intelligence. He will take up his position at the Digital Humanities Lab of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences on September 1, 2024.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), where he holds the Ruth and Paul Idzik College Chair in Digital Academics. He obtained a doctorate in English language and literature with a focal area in science and technology studies from the University of California in 2021.
Previously, he had completed a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indore, India), and postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago. His professional experience includes teaching appointments at Notre Dame, several research residencies in the U.S. and Germany, and extensive researches in areas such as digital humanities, history of technology, critical design, and game studies.
Dhaliwal's primary research interests lie at the intersection of critical theory, literary studies, media theory, and science and technology studies, focusing on the political and cultural implications of computation and digital technologies. In his forthcoming book "Rendering: A Political Anatomy of Computation", Dhaliwal examines the history of modern information technologies since the end of the 19th century in their socio-technical, aesthetic and economic dimensions. In doing so, he shows the interactions between ideational foundations and technical manifestations (software, hardware).