Rita Raley

Rita Raley

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

• “Walk this way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience,” Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres, eds. Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag/Transaction, forthcoming)
• "On Locative Narrative," Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (special issue on "Narratives and New Media," edited by Will Slocombe), forthcoming
• "Mobile Media Poetics," DAC 2009: The 8th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, University of California, Irvine
• "List(en)ing Post," Literary Art in Digital Performance, ed. Francisco J. Ricardo (London: Continuum Press, 2009)
• Tactical Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
• "Border Hacks: The Risks of Tactical Media," Risk and the War on Terror, eds. Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede (Routledge, 2008)
• "Code.surface || Code.depth," dichtung-digital 36 (2007)
• "Writing.3D," introduction and ed., The Iowa Review Web (September 2006)
• “eEmpires,” Cultural Critique 57 (Spring 2004): 111-150. To be reprinted in Globalization and Culture, ed. Paul James (London: Sage, forthcoming).
• "Machine Translation and Global English," The Yale Journal of Criticism 16, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 291-313
• "Statistical Material: Globalization and the Digital Art of John Klima," CR: The New Centennial Review 3:2 (Summer 2003): 67-89 [pdf file]
• "Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework," Electronic Book Review (September 2002)
• “The Digital Loop: Feedback and Recurrence,” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 10:7 (July 2002)
• "Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance,” Postmodern Culture 12:1 (September 2001) [text-only version]
• “A Teleology of Letters; or, From a `Common Source' to a Common Language,” Romantic Circles Praxis Series; “The Containment of English India,” ed. Daniel O'Quinn (November 2000)
• “Cadmus Britannicus: Between Language and Literature in British India,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 31:1-2 (January-April 2000)
• “On Global English and the Transmutation of Postcolonial Studies into `Literature in English,'” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8:1 (1999)

• “On Code Poetry: Dialogue with John Cayley,” Electronic Book Review (2004)
• Review of N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, Modern Fiction Studies 50:2 (Summer 2004)
• Response to Stephanie Strickland, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004)
• Contributor, Roundtable discussion on "Aesthetics, Audiences, Histories." NC2 (2003)
• “Of Dolls and Monsters: An Interview with Shelley Jackson,” The Iowa Review Web (April 2002)
• trAce Seminar, "Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen" (Dec 2002) | trAce Interview with Ted Warnell and Randy Adams, "The Poetics of Programming" (Sep 2002)
• “Anglophone Literatures” and “Agency,” Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. John Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001)
• Review of Christopher Looby, Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States, American Studies 40:3 (Fall 1999)

Recent Course Offerings

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