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Doreen Pastor is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath. She is affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Violence. Her research focuses on visitor experiences at memorial sites in Germany, particularly exploring how spaces like Holocaust and GDR-era memorials engage with historical memory through tourism and liminal emotional experiences. Her work bridges cultural studies, tourism studies, and historical memory.
Her academic contributions include a 2021 monograph Tourism and Memory: Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past and peer-reviewed articles analyzing transformative landscapes and memorial site narratives. Pastor’s research emphasizes the intersection of physical spaces, collective memory, and visitor emotional engagement.
Her research interests include liminality theory, narrative construction in memorials, gendered memory practices, and the evolution of memorialization strategies in post-war Germany. She has conducted extensive studies on concentration camp memorials such as Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg, examining how their displays shift over time to reflect changing historical interpretations.
Pastor’s publications demonstrate a focus on how memorial sites mediate between historical trauma and contemporary public understanding, often using case studies from Germany to explore broader themes in memory studies and tourism studies.
