Name: Amit Ray
Title: Faculty
URL: http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki/index.php/User:ProfRay
Blurb: Amit Ray received his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His areas of specialization are literary and cultural theory, colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures, and cultural globalization.
Awarded the Paul and Francena Miller Fellowship for the 2005-06 academic year, Professor Ray has recently completed his book, Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World, for Routledge Press.
Dr. Ray has been conducting research on wikis, authorship and authority since 2004. He has presented work on the cultural impact of wikis on the production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as on the pedagogical potential of wikis in the classroom. His interest in wikis has grown out of collaborations with students in the RIT Honors program. Along with Erhardt Graeff, he is currently working on a project that serves as a clearing house for information and research dealing with the social and cultural impact of wikis. In February he, along with several students, will be presenting an interactive lecture on wikis, authority and the public sphere as part of the Wallace Library Faculty Scholars Series. In addition, he has been working with a group of students and faculty from around the Institute to develop an online publication that queries the intersection between technology, aesthetics and culture: condu.it will be debuting in 2006.
Course Wikis in Action
http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Wiki Research
http://condu.it.rit.edu/wikitheory/index.php/Main_Page
Condu.it
http://condu.it.rit.edu/
