Rita Raley, associate professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara, will deliver a public lecture, “Machines Writing,” on Friday, March 2 2018. The lecture will be held at Lawson Lecture Hall in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College from 4:00pm – 5:15pm. More information to come.

Rita Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, language, and textuality. She is the author of Tactical Media (University of Minnesota, 2009), co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 (2011), and has more recently published articles on interventionist media arts practices, digital poetics, and global English. She has had fellowship appointments at the National Humanities Center and UCLA, as part of the Mellon-funded project on the Digital Humanities, and has taught at Rice and the University of Minnesota. In Spring 2011 she held a short-term Fulbright appointment with “ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice” at the University of Bergen, Norway; and in December 2011 she was a writer in residence hosted by the Dutch Foundation for Literature in Amsterdam. In 2012-2013 she was a visiting Associate Professor in English at NYU. She co-edits the “Electronic Mediations(link is external)” book series for the University of Minnesota Press and is an Associate Editor for ASAP/Journal(link is external)