The English Department Digital Research Studio seeks to undermine the expected and traditional nature of a humanities computer lab as a place solely for technology and its access. Instead we are implementing programs in the English Department Digital Research Studio that privilege people and collaboratory practices. We find ways to encourage active learning, participatory cultural projects and the creation of personal media. Toward this end, The Studio supports digital research, advises in the creation of technological resources and provides innovative solutions to technological issues as a part of the digital research efforts of UTA's English Department graduate students and faculty. It provides education, training and ideas, as well as access to cutting-edge systems and software. The English Department Digital Research Studio continually upgrades and expands its equipment in order to meet teaching and research in the department.

The ongoing mission of English Department Digital Research Studio is to foster innovative work across a broad spectrum of media – drawing from theories and practices of humanities computing, new media arts, and interdisciplinary and transcultural studies – to support and enhance the teaching of literary concerns through the integration of technology in the classroom, the study of born-digital forms, the creation of learning objects and other resources, and to assist in finding technological solutions. We offer workshops, one-on-one training, and a space for interdisciplinary work.