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Rita Raley

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Rita Raley

Associate Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

Tel: (805) 893-3904
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: raley@english.ucsb.edu
Personal Homepage:  [link]

Office: SH 2703
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Office Hours: T 2-3:30 pm and by appt
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tactical mediaRita Raley researches and teaches in the areas of new media (art, literature, theory) and 20-21C literature in an “international” or “global” context. Her book, Tactical Media, a study of new media art in relation to neoliberal globalization, has been published by the University of Minnesota Press in its “Electronic Mediations” series. Her most recent articles concern poetic and narratological uses of mobile & locative media. She also continues work on Global English and the Academy, excerpts of which have been published in The Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora. Another project, "Reading Code," is underway, an excerpt of which has been published under the title, "Code.surface || Code.depth" (see a related graduate seminar here). In the English department at UCSB, she is director of the Literature.Culture.Media center (formerly Transcriptions), co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization and currently leading a working group on “New Reading Interfaces” for Transliteracies. She has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Rice University, where she was the Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Assistant Professor of English. In Spring 2009 she will be in residence at the UCHRI.
 

Areas of Interest

  • New media; electronic literature; digital humanities
  • Discourses on globalization, neoliberalism, finance capital, Empire, biopolitics, and Netwar
  • Global English; electronic English
  • 20-21C literature in English
  • History of the university
 

Books and Recent Articles

 

Recent Course Offerings

  • Narratives of War
  • Theories of Globalization
  • Electronic Literature | Hypertext Fiction & Poetry | Reading Code
  • Global English

Courses

Quarter Course Title
Winter 2010 ENGL 147SM Media History and Theory :  Social Media
Winter 2010 ENGL 165LB Topics in Literature :  Literature & Biotechnology
Fall 2009 ENGL 146EL Literature of Technology :  Electronic Literature
Fall 2009 ENGL 236 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory :  Life Itself
Winter 2009 ENGL 100NW Honors Seminar :  for ENGL 122NW
Winter 2009 ENGL 122NW Cultural Representations :  Narratives of War
Fall 2008 ENGL 234 Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature :  Global English/Global Literature
Spring 2008 ENGL 100NW Honors Seminar
Spring 2008 ENGL 122NW Cultural Representations :  Narratives of War
Spring 2008 ENGL 146EL Literature of Technology :  Electronic Literature
Spring 2008 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Dystopian Fictions
Fall 2007 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Dystopian Fictions
Fall 2007 ENGL 236 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory :  Media & Materiality
Spring 2007 ENGL 146CC Literature of Technology :  The Culture of the Copy
Spring 2007 ENGL 236 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory :  Globalization in the Contemporary Moment
Winter 2007 ENGL 122NW Cultural Representations :  Narratives of War
Winter 2007 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Contemporary Literature & Geopolitics
Winter 2006 ENGL 146EL Literature of Technology :  Electronic Literature
Winter 2006 ENGL 236 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory :  Reading Code
Fall 2005 ENGL 122NW Cultural Representations :  Narratives of War
Fall 2005 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Reading Code
Winter 2004 ENGL 113LC Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
Winter 2004 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Literature of Human Rights
Fall 2003 ENGL 146EN Literature of Technology :  Contemporary Experimental Narratives
Fall 2003 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Global English (Ventura and Santa Maria class)
Fall 2003 ENGL 234 Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature :  Literature, Nation-State, and Post-Nation
Fall 2003 ENGL 593 Graduate Technology Colloquium
Spring 2003 ENGL 165EC Topics in Literature :  The Posthuman
Spring 2003 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Global English
Spring 2003 ENGL 593 Graduate Technology Colloquium
Winter 2003 ENGL 113LC Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism :  Literary and Cultural Theory
Winter 2003 ENGL 236 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory :  Theories of Globalization
Fall 2002 ENGL 165LT Topics in Literature :  Literature of Technology
Winter 2002 ENGL 165CL Topics in Literature :  Caribbean Literature
Winter 2002 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Globalization and Literature
Fall 2001 ENGL 165LT Topics in Literature :  Hypertext Fiction and Poetry
Fall 2001 ENGL 234 Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature :  Global English
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