Caroline Bassett#
| Membership Number: | 5505 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Caroline.Bassett |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019 Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK; Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities
- 2016 - 2019 Professor of Digital Media and Communications, University of Sussex, UK; Director and co-founder of Sussex Humanities Lab
- 2008 - 2016 Reader, University of Sussex
- 2000 - 2008 Lecturer, University of Sussex
- 1995 - 2000 Journalist for technology/computing themes, magazine editor, columnist
Fields of Scholarship
- Digital Media
- Computational humanities
- AI and the transformation of knowlege cultures
- Technology and social power
- Science fiction, technology and utopian thinking
- Critical theories of the digital
- Feminist thinking on technology and the political
- Theorizing media histories and archaeologies, automation anxiety
- AI explainabilty and the politics of technology and epistemic cultures
- Theories of the everyday
- Perec and automatic writing
Honours and Awards
- 2015 - 2017 Helsingin Sanomat Foundation Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced studies (HCAS) Finland
- Jan - Sept 2010 IGSF awarded visiting fellow, McGill University, Montreal
- 2002 - 2003 Associate Visiting Faculty, George Mason University, Washington DC (Leverhulme funded)
