Rita Raley
Professor
Rita Raley is Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. Her primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with an emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, language, and global formations. One thread that extends throughout her work concerns machine translation and machine writing, which has most recently led to publications focusing on GPT-2 and collaborative projects on Critical Machine Learning and “Critical AI.”
In addition to previous teaching positions at the University of Minnesota, Rice, and NYU, she has held fellowship and short-term residency appointments hosted by the National Humanities Center; the University of Bergen, Norway; the Dutch Foundation for Literature in Amsterdam; and UCLA, the last as part of a Mellon-funded project on the Digital Humanities. She co-edits the “Electronic Mediations” book series for the University of Minnesota Press and is an Associate Editor for ASAP/Journal.
Selected administrative experience: Vice-Chair, Academic Senate (2020-2022; 2023-2024); Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (2020-2024); UC Humanities Research Institute Advisory Committee (2015-2018); Chair, UCSB Program Review Panel (2015-2017 [member and vice-chair, 2013-2015]); Chair, UCSB Graduate Council (2011-2012); UC Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (2011-2012); IHC Advisory Board (2005-2008).
Research Areas
- c. 1945-present
- Digital Humanities
- Global Literatures
- Media Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
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