Rate My Professor Caroline Bassett

Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Digital Humanities research programme since September 2019. She is a Professorial Fellow of Corpus Christi College, serving as Postgraduate Admissions Adviser for Arts and Humanities and Director of Studies in English. Bassett holds a BA from the University of London, an MA, and a PhD from the University of Sussex. Prior to Cambridge, she co-founded the Sussex Humanities Lab at the University of Sussex and held visiting fellowships at McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies as Helsingin Sanomat Fellow, and Södertörn University in Sweden.

Her research examines digital technologies in relation to questions of knowledge production and epistemology, including how digital methods transform scholarship and understanding, as well as cultural forms, practices, and ways of being amid informational capitalism. Specializations encompass digital media, computational humanities, AI and knowledge cultures, technology and social power relations, science fiction and utopian thinking, critical theories of the digital, AI literature and writing, feminist thinking on technology and the political economy, media histories and archaeologies, automation anxiety, AI explainability, politics of technology, epistemic cultures, and theories of the everyday exemplified by Georges Perec's automatic writing. Key publications include Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures (co-authored, Pluto Press, 2019), The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media (Manchester University Press, 2007; second edition 2014), and Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine (Manchester University Press, 2022). She supervises PhD students in areas such as digital media arts, makerspaces, critical theory, black history in digital humanities, algorithmic subjectivities, feminism, big data and algorithmic justice, science fiction, media archaeology, and net histories. Through her leadership of CDH, Bassett fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, advancing the integration of computational methods in humanities research across the University of Cambridge.