A good question.

I really like the question of what English is as a discipline if work like Rita Raley's is at home in it. (The person in our department whose work most resembles hers is, of course, Colin Milburn.) This is, to me at least, a very different question than asking why an English student might read Flusser, what that student might need to know about media differences, or performance, etc.

Take a look at Raley's web page to see what she taught last year while visiting at NYU English: http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/