Rita Raley
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Rita Raley | |
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| Occupation(s) | Associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara [1] |
| Awards | Career Development Awards - FCDA/Regents (2012-2013) |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Tactical Media |
Rita Raley is an American researcher who focuses on digital literature.[2] Her research interests include new media, electronic literature, digital humanities, contemporary arts (literature, media), activism and social practices, tactical media, global English, discourse on globalization, and language and information politics.[1]
As part of the Mellon-funded project on Digital Humanities, Raley had fellowship appointments at UCLA and the National Humanities Center. She has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Rice University, and the University of Minnesota. She was also an adjunct Associate Professor in the English department at New York University (NYU), from 2012 to 2013. Raley was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship which included a 2011 appointment at the University of Bergen, Norway, with a research project titled "ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice." In December 2011, she attended a writing residency in Amsterdam, which was hosted by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.[1]
Raley won the UCLA's 2012-2013 Career Development Awards- FCDA/Regents, which is a program that provides funding for junior faculty to pursue their research.[3]
