Rita Raley

Education and experience 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.

Career Raley is an associate professor of English, whose main focuses are in film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Critical writing Raley co-edits the Electronic Mediations book series for the University of Minnesota Press and is an associate editor for ASAP/Journal. Raley has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters.

+ Critical writing Title Type of Publication Publisher Year "Playing with Unicorns: AI Dungeon and Citizen NLP" article in an online journal Digital Humanities Quarterly 2020 "Machine Writing: Translation, Generation, Automation" article in an online journal MATLIT: Materiallities of Literature 2018 "Algorithmic Translations" article in a print journal CR: The New Centennial Review 2016 "TXTual Practice" article University of Minnesota Press 2013 "Another Kind of Global English" article in a print journal the Minnesota review 2012 "'Living Letterforms': The Ecological Turn in Contemporary Digital Poetics" article in a print and online journal; conference paper/presentation Contemporary Literature 2011 "On Locative Narrative" article in ta print journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 2008 "Editor's Introduction: Writing.3D" article in an online journal The Iowa review 2006 "'Of Dolls and Monsters': An INterview with Shelley Jackson" article in an online journal The Iowa Review 2002 "Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework" article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2002 "The Digital Loop: Feedback and Recurrence" article in an online journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac 2002 "Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance" article in an online journal Postmodern Culture 2001

Works Rita Raley published Tactical Media with the University of Minnesota Press in 2009, which was published as part of the Electronic Mediations series. She has published excerpts of this work in The Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora.

She is the co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 (2011) as well as a special issue from American Literature at Duke University Press (2023) on Critical AI.

Raley has given many talks on electronic literature, such as the 2013 talk at the University of Texas at Austin as the featured presenter of the Digital Writing and Research Lab's annual Speaker Series.