Pathway Leader and Senior Lecturer, MA Publishing

Assistant Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE)


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, and became Pathway Leader of the MA in Publishing course, which launched in 2009. 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 clusters:

• CoDE
• ARCDigital
• Artefact
• Ebooks and Ebook Readers

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