Qualifications: PhD in English Literature; MPhil in Popular Literature; BA (Hons) in English and French; Certificate in Training Delivery & Evaluation (QQ1 Level 6); Digital Preservation Skills Certificate; Diploma in Digital Marketing (FETAC Level 5)
Research Interests: Digital Cultural Memory; Digital Storytelling; Community-based Approaches to Archives; Fanfiction Archives
Contact: a.madden@ria.ie
Profile
Áine Madden is the senior programme manager (operations and communications) at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She is a member of the DRI senior management team and is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of DRI’s core activities and supporting the project management of DRI’s research projects, including managing budgets, strategic planning, and reporting. She also develops and delivers DRI’s communications strategy, has editorial and strategic management of DRI’s communications channels, manages DRI’s Communications Task Force, and supports DRI’s audience development initiatives and press and publicity engagement.
Prior to this appointment, Áine had responsibility for managing DRI public engagement events and creating and curating content for DRI communications channels in her role as communications and engagement coordinator. She also held the position of acting education and outreach manager at the DRI where she was responsible for leading the outreach and training programme. She previously held the position of programme manager at the DRI where she worked with the DRI Director in the day-to-day running, project planning, scheduling, and administration of the DRI and DRI partner projects.
Áine has a background in project management, communications, event management, administration, and teaching. She has worked in the academic publishing sector (Deanta Publishing Services), arts and cultural organisations (Firkin Crane Dance Theatre, Dublin Book Festival, Big Smoke Writing Factory), media organisations (MediaHQ), and in higher education administration (Trinity College Dublin Disability Service). Áine has also worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools (language support teacher at Clonburris National School in Dublin, English language teacher at Avalon English Academy in South Korea), and has taught English Literature modules at third-level (teaching assistant in Victorian Literature and Popular Literature in Trinity College Dublin).
Áine holds a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin and an MPhil in Popular Literature. Her research interests include fanfiction archives, digital cultural memory, and community-based approaches to archiving. Her first monograph, Expanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2024.
Networks and Committees
- Radical Archives Network of Ireland (2023–to present)
- Irish Museums Association (2022–to present)
- Europeana Communicators Community (2021– to present)
- Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Workforce Development Sub-Committee (2021–to 2023)
- LIR Committee for Higher Education Institution Libraries (2021– 2023)
- Intersections, Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities (IFTe) network (2020– to present)
Event Organising Committees (Selection)
- Programme Committee and Organising Committee, National Open Research Forum (NORF) NORFest Conference (2023)
- Organising Committee, DRI and Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities, Radical Archives: Community Digital Archives Consultation Forum (2022)
- Organising Committee, LIR Annual Seminar and Annual General Meeting (2022)
- Programme and Organising Committee, LIR Committee’s Oral History Plenary (2022)
- Organising Committee, NORF Open Research in Ireland Webinar Series (2021)
- Organising Committee, Using Digital Archives for Academic Research Webinar Series (2021)
- Programme Committee, IFTe Network’s ‘Transforming Archives: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to the Practice and Reading of Archives’ Series (2021)
- Programme and Organising Committee, DRI and National Archives Ireland (NAI), Digital Preservation Public Lecture Series (2020)
- Organising Committee, International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (2020)
