Anglia Ruskin University

Core staff

Dr Samantha Rayner (samantha.rayner@anglia.ac.uk)

Director

Samantha Rayner (PhD, Bangor University) is the Director of the CoDE Research Institute and Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University. She teaches and writes on publishing and book related topics, with special interests in the eBook and eBook reader, the culture of bookselling, editors and editing, literary festivals and literary ephemera. She also teaches on English Literature courses and has specialisms in Medieval and Arthurian texts.

Her monograph, 'Images of Kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian Contemporaries', was published by Boydell in 2008, and she has a chapter on David Jones in a volume called 'The Arthurian Way of Death' (Boydell, 2009). She has particular interests in facilitating collaborative interdisciplinary projects, and engaging with external agencies to invigorate and direct academic research, as well as curriculum development and enhancement. She is co-editor for the forthcoming new Intellect journal, 'Book 2.0'.

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Dr Seb Franklin (seb.franklin@anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE Research Fellow

Research interests: Cultural history of cybernetics - Relationship between cybernetics and narrative media (especially film) - Games, play and ludic culture - Critical theory

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Leah Tether (leah.tether@anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE research fellow

Research interests: Manuscript digitisation - Digital preservation of cultural heritage - Digital codices as paratexts - Medieval/digital reading culture and practices

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Dr Rob Toulson (rob.toulson@anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE Research Fellow

Research interests: Percussion acoustics and quantitative drum tuning - Dynamic range and loudness in commercial music - DSP and microelectronic systems design for audio - Interactive education methods for music technology subjects

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Joe Williams (joseph.williams@anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE Visiting Research Fellow

Joseph John Williams is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His current research focuses on the relationship between writing and game design. Specifically, he looks at the connections between the writing process and the design process, as well as the effects of automated, interactive systems on writing and reading experiences. He was lead designer on "Article: The Game," a learning game for writing students, and is currently designing a large-scale organizational learning simulation. His work has been published in Kairos and Computers and Composition.

Jason Slater (jason.slater@anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE Project Administrator

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Michelle Lewis-King (michelle.lewis-king@student.anglia.ac.uk)

CoDE Research student