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Dr. Amit Ray

  • Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at RIT
  • College of Liberal Arts (06) 2309
  • e-mail: axrgsl at rit dot edu
  • phone: 585 475-2437
  • fax: 585 475-7120

•Department of English•Rochester Institute of Technology•Rochester, NY 14623

With Lucy. Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil, November 2005.
With Lucy. Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil, November 2005.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Doctoral Committee:

Recent Publications

Books

Articles

  • “The New Criticism,” The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons, 2005.
  • “Jagannath’s Move: Latour and the Dalit Unconscious,” with Evan Selinger. Public Proofs: Science, Technology and Democracy. Paris: Center for Innovative Sociology and The French Ministry of Research, 2004.

Scholarships and Awards

  • Paul and Francena Miller Fellowship, RIT, 2005-2006
  • Eisenhart Teaching Award Nominee, RIT, 2004-2005
  • Provost’s Learning Initiative Grant, RIT (team member), 2003-2004
  • Department of English Dissertation Defense Award, University of Michigan, 2003
  • AACU Grant on Globalization in the Curriculum, RIT (team member), 2002-2003
  • Faculty Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts, RIT, 2002
  • Rackham Graduate School Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2000
  • Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1998-1999
  • Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997
  • Rackham Outstanding G.S.I. Award nominee, University of Michigan, 1995
  • English Departmental Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1994-95
  • Outstanding Achievement Award in English, SUNY-Buffalo- 1991

Selected Presentations

  • Rochester, NY: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester.
    • July 2007 (Invited Speaker): "Wikis and the Lab for Social Computing". With Matthew Bernius.
  • Rochester, NY: Counterpublics, Media and Social Change,
    • April 2007: Session Organizer: "Counterpublics, New Media and Democracy: Four Disciplinary Perspectives." (with Matthew Bernius, Alex Bitterman and Neil Hair) Presentation: "Wikis and Counterpublics: New Media as Digital Palimpsest."
  • Stockholm, Sweden: Södertörn University, From Orientalism to Postcoloniality,
    • April 2006 (Invited Speaker): "Of Bookers and Spice and Everything Nice: Indian-ness, Literary Prizes and Cosmopolitan Culture"
  • Rochester, NY: RIT Faculty Scholars Series,
    • February 2006 (Invited Speaker): "WWW/ Wiki Wacky Web?: Wikis, Authority and the Public Sphere." With Erhardt Graeff and Patrick Gage Kelley
  • St. Louis, MO: 40th Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council,
    • October 2005: "Wiki Communities and the Classroom: Honors Pedagogy"
  • Rochester, NY: Caroline Warner Gannett Lecture Series (streaming video link),
    • March 2005: Invited Respondent to Ali A. Mazrui’s lecture, “Has a Clash of Civilizations Begun? Islam and the West.”
  • Rochester, NY: New York College English Association Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (NYCEA) in Writing and Literature,
    • October 2004. Panel Chair, "Cultures of Pedagogy." Presentation: "Transgressive Animation and the American Political Imagination."
  • Rochester, NY: Media Ecology Association, Media Environments and the Liberal Arts,
    • June 2004: “Critique or Consent? Transgressive Animation and American Power: Re-viewing The Simpsons and South Park.”
  • San Diego, CA: Modern Language Association (MLA) National Conference,
    • December 2003: Special Topics Session (Session Co-Organizer/Leader) Colonial Cousins: Indian Writing in English in 19th C Bengal,; Presentation: “Rammohan in English: Orientalism, Unitarianism and Vedanta”
  • Gregynog, Wales: International Romantic Orientalism Conference,
    • July 2002: “Negotiating the Modern: British and Indian Orientalism and the Construction of “Indianness”
  • Ann Arbor, MI: Center for South Asian Studies,
    • April 2001: “‘Indianness’ and Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fictions”
  • Chicago, IL: Society for the Study of Social Transformation (SSST),
    • August 1999- “Gender and Nationalism in Tagore’s The Home and the World”
  • Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, The Home and the World: International Conference on Rabindranath Tagore at the End of the Millennium,
    • September 1998- "'Outside the Room': Tagore, the Domestic, and the Political"

Professional Titles and Affiliations

•October 2007 to Present: Faculty Member, CASCI Laboratory for Game Design & Development

•September 2007 to Present: Member, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

•June 2007 to Present: Associate Professor, Department of English, RIT

•April 2006 to Present: Member, The Society for Critical Exchange

•September 2004 to Present: Faculty Member, Lab for Social Computing, RIT

•September 2003 to Present: Senator (Senior Liberal Arts Senator 9/2007 to Present), Academic Senate, RIT

•September 2001 to May 2007: Assistant Professor, Department of English, RIT

•September 1998 to Present: Member, Modern Language Association

Institute, College and Departmental Service

•Institute Intellectual Property Policy Committee, 9/06-5/07

•Institute Conflict of Interest and Commitment Policy Committee, 5/06-5/08

••Sub-committee Chairperson, Consulting and other Conflicts of Commitment Taskforce, 5/06-5/07

•Coordinator and Fundraiser, N. Katherine Hayles Lecture and Degree Program Committee consultation, 5/06

•Student Government Tiger Reviews Advisory Committee, 5/06-present

•Coordinator and Fundraiser, Lawrence Lessig Lecture, 3/06 Streaming Video

•Departmental Public Relations/Branding Taskforce, 1/06-present

•Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Digital Arts Competition, Advisory Board, 12/05-present

•Departmental Website Taskforce, Leader, 09/05-present

•Departmental Science Writing Degree Program and Minor Committee, 10/05-present

•Departmental Literary and Cultural Studies Minor Committee, 9/05-present

•Institute Council Senate Representative, Liberal Arts, 9/05-present

•Institute Faculty Senate, COLA Representative, 9/03-present

•Departmental Global Literacies Degree Program Committee, 5/03-8/04

•Departmental Speaker Series Committee, 5/03-12/03

•Departmental Common Novel Committee, 5/03-5/04

•RIT Exploration Program, Faculty Advisor, 9/02-present

•College of Liberal Arts, Critical Theory Reading Group, Coordinator, 9/01-9/04

•Departmental Chair Search Committee, 9/01-5/02

•Departmental Writing Committee, 9/01-9/03

Selected Courses

References

  • Simon Gikandi (Doctoral Committee Chair)- Professor of English,
    • Princeton University – New Jersey
  • Aamir Mufti - Associate Professor of Comparative Literature,
    • University of California – Los Angeles
  • Elizabeth Lane Lawley – Associate Professor of Information Technology,
    • Rochester Institute of Technology – New York
  • Timothy Engström – Professor of Philosophy,
    • Rochester Institute of Technology – New York
  • Janet Zandy – Professor, English,
    • Rochester Institute of Technology – New York

Research Statement

Teaching Philosophy

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Campus Wide Wiki

©Chris Harrison 2007. This elegant visualization shows the structure of three levels of Wikipedia category pages and their interconnections. Centered in the graph is a parent node. Pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. Finally, pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. Links between category pages are illustrated by edges, which are color coded to represent their depth from the parent node. Nodes are clustered such that edge lengths are minimized. This forces highly connected groups of pages to clump together, essentially forming topical groups. The center acts as an anchor while the ring provides a fixed perimeter. This allows the secondary, super-categories to "float" above clusters. Click on the image for a detailed hi-resolution view. Chris Harrison is a Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon studying Data Visualization and Human Computer Interfaces. His homepage can be found here: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.html
©Chris Harrison 2007. This elegant visualization shows the structure of three levels of Wikipedia category pages and their interconnections. Centered in the graph is a parent node. Pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. Finally, pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. Links between category pages are illustrated by edges, which are color coded to represent their depth from the parent node. Nodes are clustered such that edge lengths are minimized. This forces highly connected groups of pages to clump together, essentially forming topical groups. The center acts as an anchor while the ring provides a fixed perimeter. This allows the secondary, super-categories to "float" above clusters. Click on the image for a detailed hi-resolution view. Chris Harrison is a Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon studying Data Visualization and Human Computer Interfaces. His homepage can be found here: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.html

The Data Coup d'États

The Data Coup d'États Drafts and Comments

The Age of Magical Terrorism?

Free Culture@RIT?

Free_Culture Group @ RIT

With Kiran. Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, June 2007.
With Kiran. Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, June 2007.
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