Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), University of Cambridge

Caroline Bassett joined Cambridge in autumn 2019 as Professor of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of English and the Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), an inter-disciplinary research programme. She explores digital technologies in relation to questions of knowledge production and epistemology (how does 'the digital' change scholarship, transform understanding, produce new scales or perspectives?) and in relation to cultural forms, practices, and ways of being (how can we understand the stakes of informational capitalism, what are its symptoms, how can we understand its temporalities, the forms of life it enables, and those it forecloses?).

Her research interests include 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.

Books she has written include the ‘Arc and the Machine’, on narrative and new media, Furious, a co-authored monograph on feminism, gender and digital worlds. She has recently completed ‘Anti-Computing’ a book exploring histories of resistance to computerized culture, to be published in 2021.