Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader, MA Publishing

Room: Hel 161

Email: Samantha.Rayner@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2266
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2266

Samantha Rayner joined Anglia Ruskin in 2008 as Senior Lecturer in Publishing. She gained her PhD in 2006, has a BA an MA, and a PGCE and has taught at postgraduate, undergraduate and secondary school levels for over 10 years. She has also worked as a Research and Development manager for the Creative Industries at Bangor University, and as a bookseller, secondary school teacher and A level examiner.

Research Interests:

• Publishing and Bookselling
• Ebooks and e-book readers
• Social and cultural impact of publishing
• digital aesthetics
• textual transformations
• capturing and analysing ephemeral artifacts of creativity, (particularly in literary festivals)
• archives and collections
• Creative Industries development
• Transliteracy
• Digitalisation of MSS; Uses of resources available in palaeography research and training
• Ricardian poetry; Middle English Alliterative poetry
• Arthurian literature
• The work of David Jones
• The poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and other Court Wits of the Restoration
• The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Devotional poets

Research groups

• ARCDigital
• Artefact
• Ebooks and Ebook Readers

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