Rachael Scarborough King

Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rachael Scarborough King an associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (2018).

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Written by Rachael Scarborough King

A sunlit old stone corridor with Gothic arches and shadows cast on the walls, featuring arched windows and a lantern.

essayKnowledge

The ends of knowledge

Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end

Rachael Scarborough King & Seth Rudy

Painting of a busy 18th-century coffee house with men reading newspapers, talking, and a large clock on the wall.

essayInformation and communication

Reddit, with wigs and ink

The first newspapers contained not high-minded journalism but hundreds of readers’ letters exchanging news with one another

Rachael Scarborough King