Rita Raley is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus on digital media as both subject and object of humanities inquiry, with an emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and global formations. One thread that extends throughout her work concerns the relations between language and technology, which began with analyses of Global English, machine translation, codework, and electronic literature and has most recently led to publications focusing on GPT-2 and generative AI. Another thread focuses on art-activist, tactical, participatory, appropriative, or otherwise hands-on engagement with sociotechnical systems—which means, most recently, what people are doing with large language models.
