Pathway Leader and Senior Lecturer, MA Publishing
Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE)

Office Hours: Thursday 4.00 - 6.00pm

Room: Hel 325

Email: samantha.rayner@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2348
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2348

Samantha Rayner joined Anglia Ruskin in 2008 as Senior Lecturer in Publishing, and is Pathway Leader of the MA in Publishing course. She is also the Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE), which investigates how new technologies can enhance living, businesses, and research.

She gained her PhD in 2006 in Medieval Literature, has a BA, an MA and a PGCE, and has taught at postgraduate, undergraduate and secondary school levels for over 15 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 - including ePublishing
• Paratexts
• Archives and archiving: preserving culture
• Digitalisation of MSS
• The aesthetics of reading
• Learning Environments: Virtual, Mobile, Online
• Literary Festivals
• The History of the Book Trade
• Creative Industries and their effective management in local, national and international contexts
• Arthurian literature - past and present.
• Medieval literature: particularly the Ricardian poets
• 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 Clusters

 

Publications

"Death and the grimly voice in David Jones's 'In Parenthesis' " - chapter in The Arthurian Way of Death, ed. Kevin Whetter and Karen Cherewatuk, Boydell, 2009

Images of Kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian Contemporaries, Boydell, 2008

""Perced to the roote": Challenges in Teaching Chaucer at UK Universities" - Literature Compass, published by Blackwell, 2008

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