N. Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles

Born	16 December 1943
Occupation	Professor
Nationality	United States
Genres	Electronic literature Postmodern American Literature
Notable work(s)	How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics

N. Katherine Hayles (16 December 1943 - ) is a noted postmodern literary critic, particularly in the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. ^[1] She will be joining Duke University in the Fall of 2008 with a joint appointment in The Program in Literature and ISIS (Information Science and Information Studies). ^[2]

[edit] Background

Hayles was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to Edward and Thelma Bruns. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, and her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. She worked as a research chemist in 1966 at Xerox Corporation and as a chemical research consultant Beckman Instrument Company from 1968-1970. Hayles then switched fields and received her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977. ^[3]

Her scholarship focuses upon the "relations between science, literature, and technology." ^[4]^[5] Hayles has taught at UCLA, University of Iowa, University of Missouri–Rolla, the California Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth College. ^[6] She was the faculty director of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2001-2006. ^[7]

Writing Machines: Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics: Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999
Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, UCLA, 1999
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1999
Bellagio Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 1999
Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Rochester, 1998
Medal of Honor, University of Helsinki, 1997
Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Fantastic in the Arts, 1997
"A Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, a fellowship at the National Humanities Center and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the University of California."^[8]

Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, 2008 ^[9]
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, 2005 ^[10]
Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.), 2004 ^[11]
Writing Machines, 2002 ^[12]
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, 1999 ^[13]
Technocriticism and Hypernarrative. A special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 3, Fall 1997 (guest editor)
Chaos and Order:Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. (ed.), 1991
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, 1990
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, 1984

'The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event,' in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, Morris, Adalaide, and Thomas Swiss, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
'The life cycle of cyborgs: writing the posthuman.' In The Cyborg Handbook, Gray, Chris Hables (ed.) New York: Routledge, 1996. Also available in Cybersexualities, Wolmark, Jenny (ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2000.

Gale Reference Team. "N. Katherine Hayles." Contemporary Authors (Biography). Thomson Gale, 2004.