Nicole Basaraba

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Coordinator of MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, Fellow of Advance HE.

Nicole Basaraba (BA, MA, PhD, PGCertHE) joined the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies and Centre for Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin in 2023 as an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. Before joining TCD, she taught media and communications studies at Coventry University, completed postdoctoral research at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg). She also received her PhD in Digital Humanities, supported by the ADAPT Centre, at Trinity College Dublin.

As a transdisciplinary scholar, her research focuses on how digital storytelling allows for evolving interpretations and public participation (e.g. co-creation) and can increase understanding of cultural heritage and difficult heritage through slow tourism and public history approaches. She has participated in a number of research projects that involve collaborators from different sectors including cultural heritage institutions and corporate partners. Past case studies for her research include an interactive web documentary for the UNESCO World Heritage Australian Convict Sites, a mobile app for The National Famine Way (Ireland), a policy brief related to the European Capitals of Culture Initiative, and paper on paranormal investigations as a form of virtual dark tourism on YouTube. Her first monograph, Transmedia for Cultural Heritage: Remixing History was published by Routledge in 2021, and she has published over 20 publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, as well as a variety of public-impact pieces (e.g., a policy brief, academic blog post, public radio shows, research events published on YouTube, and a manual on good practices towards academic citational justice for minority groups). 

Email: n.basaraba@tcd.ie

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