Rita Raley
Associate Professor
Department of English - University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Info
Email: raley@english.ucsb.edu
About:
Rita Raley researches and teaches in the areas of new media (art, literature, theory); contemporary literature; and globalization (especially risk, security and speculation). 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 and locative media. She also continues work on a project on Global English, excerpts of which have been published in The Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora. In the English department at UC Santa Barbara, she is director of the Literature.Culture.Media center (formerly Transcriptions) and co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization. She has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Rice University, where she was the Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Assistant Professor of English.
