Rita Raley

// During the academic year 2012-2013, I will have a visiting appointment in the English department at NYU. My fall courses are ENGL 252: Distracted Reading and ENGL 800: Media Theory. My spring graduate course (co-taught) is Humanist Enterprises: Institutions, Practices, Media.

• “Disintegrated Reading,” First Wednesday lecture series, Dept of English, NYU (December 5)
• Roundtable: The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities, MLA (January 3-6, 2013)
• Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin (February 15, 2013)
• Digital Dialogues at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) (Week of February 25, 2013)
• “Disintegrated Reading,” “Surface Reading/Machine Reading: New Approaches to Text and Text Data,” NYU (March 11, 2013)
• Respondent: “Mediating the Nonhuman,” UC Santa Barbara (March 15-16, 2013)
• “Courseware.com,” The Dark Side of the Digital, Center for 21C Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (May 2-4, 2013)

• The Re:Enlightenment Exchange 2, London (July 13-15)
• Panel discussion: Speculative, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (July 28)
• Panel discussant, “Art, War, Surveillance, and the Sustainability of Urgency in the Post 9/11 Era,” ISEA2011 (September 16)
• Writer in residence, The Dutch Foundation for Literature in cooperation with The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (December 2011)
• Keynote presentation, “‘Living Letterforms’: The Ecological Turn in Contemporary Digital Poetics,” ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Poetics and the Present, University of Amsterdam (December 9-10)
• “Transient Interfaces,” “Reconfiguring the Literary,” Modern Language Association, Seattle (January 2012)
• Panel: “Reconfiguring Publishing”: Electronic Literature Collection 2, Modern Language Association, Seattle (January 2012)
• Screen Culture Research Group, Concordia University (March 29-30, 2012)
• “Gaming the Game: Tweaking, Cheating, Hacking, Creeping,” UC Davis (April 12-14, 2012)
• “Tactical Media as Speculative Practice,” Berkeley Center for New Media (April 26, 2012)
• MIT Communications Forum / Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book (May 3-4, 2012)
• Poetry on the Mobile Screen, The Stedelijk Museum and TrouwAmsterdam (May 17, 2012)
• Symposium: “Prototyping Futures/Occupying the Present,” Rotterdam (May 19-21, 2012)
• Critical Digital Humanities Mellon Workshop presentation, UC Riverside (May 31, 2012)

• “Dataveillance: Design & Dissent,” Annual Conference, American Political Science Association (September 2-5)
• Plenary presentation: “Dataveillance & Countervailance,” DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, University of Toronto (November 12-14)
• “Crowdspeak: Mobile Telephony and TXTual Practice,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles (January 8, 2011)
• Media Arts and Technology lecture, UC Santa Barbara (February 7, 2011)
• ACGCC/Transcriptions Symposium: “Risk Media and Speculation,” UC Santa Barbara (March 3-5, 2011)
• Digital Studies Symposium, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC (March 7, 2011)
• “Towards a Rhetoric of Interactive Text Projection,” Steinhardt School, NYU (March 28-29, 2011)
• Seminar: “The Graphic Novel in a Global Context,” ACLA, Vancouver (April 1-3, 2011)
• Short-term Fulbright appointment, ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, University of Bergen, Norway (April-May 2011)
• HUMlab seminar on interactive text events, Umeå University, Sweden (April 29, 2011)
• ELC2 Launch at the Bergen Public Library (May 2, 2011)
• Panel: Data as/and Poetry, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University (June 19-22, 2011)

• Keynote address: “How to do things with layers: Artistic uses of locative media,” ISMAR (October 21-22)
• “Mobile Media Poetics,” DAC09, University of California, Irvine (December 12-15)
• “Red Dot Sight,” “Premediation, Anticipation, Speculation: Futures in Finance and Security,” University of Amsterdam (January 21-22, 2010)
• Futures of Digital Studies, University of Florida (February 25-27, 2010)
• “Biopolitical Informatics,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (March 17-21, 2010)
• The Re:Enlightenment Exchange, New York University (April 21-23, 2010)
• Seeded speaker: Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Brown University (June 4-6, 2010)

• Lecture, “Locative Narrative: Figuring Urban Space in the Network Society,” Otterbein College (October 9)
• Conference: “Interrupt,” Brown University (October 17-19)
• “Global English, Language Technology, and the Culture of Security.” Workshop on “Global Chinese / Global English: Technology and the Geopolitics of Writing,” Columbia University (October 31)
• Conference: “Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres,” University of Siegen, Germany (November 20-21)
• “Mobile Media Poetics,” Modern Language Association (Poetry Division), San Francisco (December 27-30)
• “Virtual Strikes,” Modern Language Association (Media & Literature), San Francisco (December 27-30)
• Panel organizer: “The Ecological Imagination: From Land Art to Bioart,” College Art Association, Los Angeles (February 25-28, 2009)
• “Looking at Artificial Creatures,” College Art Association, Los Angeles (February 25-28, 2009)
• Conversation with John Cayley, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota (March 5, 2009)
• “On Locative Narrative,” eNow! lecture series, Dept of English, University of Minnesota (March 9, 2009)
• Seminar organizer: “Global Englishes,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard (March 26-29, 2009)
• Residential Fellowship: Speculative Globalities, UCHRI (April-June 2009)
• Presentation, Violence, Technology and Public Intervention, UC San Diego (April 24, 2009)
• “Global English,” Summer Institute: Dept of English, Miami University of Ohio (June 1, 2009)

• “The Visualization of Financial Networks,” Art Panel, SIGGRAPH (August 5-9)
• “List(en)ing Post,” Reading Digital Literature, Brown University (October 5-7)
• UCSB Second Life Project, DET/CHE Conference (November 28)
• Video chat, Eyal Amiran’s class on “Digital Object,” UC Irvine (November 29)
• Panel chair and organizer, “New Reading Interfaces,” Modern Language Association (Association for Computing and the Humanities), Chicago (December 27-30)
• “War Games,” Modern Language Association (Division of Literary Criticism), Chicago (December 27-30)
• Presentation, Mellon Faculty Seminar, UCLA (January 11, 2008)
• “List(en)ing Post,” Dept of English, UCLA (February 2008)
• Lecture, MA Program in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, Leicester (February 25, 2008)
• Lecture, Department of English, UC Irvine (February 28, 2008)
• NSF CreativeIT workshop on “Codework,” Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University (April 3-6, 2008)
• Plenary presentation: Console-ing Passions (April 2008)
• “Spores and ‘Vores: ALife Gaming Narratives,” ACLA (April 2008)
• “Unframed: Electronic Literature Beyond the Screen,” keynote address, English Festival, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (April 29-30, 2008)
• Software Studies Workshop, UC San Diego (May 2008)
• Conference: Electronic Literature Organization, Vancouver, WA (May 29-June 1, 2008)

• Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities, National Humanities Center (October 1-17)
• Keynote address, The Peter Straub Symposium on Literature and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Post”-Literature: Literacy, Technology, and Culture (October 20-21)
• e and eye: art and poetry between the electronic and the visual, Tate Modern (November 13)
• Reading Code: Media and Literature Discussion Group, MLA (December 29)
• Speculative Globalities workshop, UCHRI (February 1-4, 2007)
• Conference: Human Rights and Neoliberalism, UCSB (March 2-3, 2007)
• Society for Textual Scholarship, NYU (March 16-17, 2007)
• Lecture, MA Program in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, Leicester (March 19-21, 2007)
• Lectures, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Uppsala University (March 23-26, 2007)
• Conference: “From Experimental Systems to Experimental States: Anthropology at the Intersection of Life, Science and Capital,” UCI (April 13-14, 2007)
  
• “Tactical Media: Data Visualization as an Aesthetico-Political Practice,” Dept of English, Dartmouth College (May 3, 2007)
• Transliteracies: New Reading Interfaces symposium (May 12, 2007)