N. Katherine Hayles

Position: Professor of English

Address: English Department
University of California - Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90095-1530

Email: hayles@humnet.ucla.edu

Interests:

• Literature and Science in the Twentieth Century
• Modern British and American Literature
• Cultural Theory
• Electronic Textuality

Courses:

• Art and Literature in Digital Domain (Graduate Seminar, UCLA, Winter 2002)
• CULT (Collective of Utopic Literary Technologies) (Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, Fall 2000)
• "Turbo English 4" (Undergraduate Writing Course, Winter 1997).
• Syllabus and course description.
• Student Web Page projects.
• "Literature in Transition: Implications of Electronic Textuality" (NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Summer 1995)
  Participants' projects:
• Patricia Caldwell's ENMU Virtual Classroom Page
• Marjorie Luesebrink's Virtual Mausoleum
• Ellen Strenski's English and Comparative Literature Page
• Stephanie Strickland's Simone Weil Page
• Joe Tabbi's Electronic Book Review Page
• Kevin LeGrandeur's discussion site for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
• "Electronic Textuality in Literary Theory and Practice," (Graduate Seminar, Spring 1995)
  Student hypertext projects:
• Los Angeles as a hypertextual space by Erika Tasini
• Edges of Pleasure, Kirsten Hill on literature, feminist theory, and lesbian S/M practice as it relates to the relationship between subjectivity, body, and writing.
• Pistel, by Jessica Brantly--perspectives on "The Pistel of Susanne" from the Book of Daniel.
• HyperSade by Jake Martin.
• The Multiple Selves of Sylvia Plath by Laura Wyrick.
• "How to Do Things with Narratives: Literary Methods and Scientific Legitimation" (Graduate Seminar, Spring 1996)
• "Female Revisionings of Male Texts" (Senior Seminar, Spring 1995)
• "The American Experience with Intelligent Machines" (Winter 1995, Upperclass undergraduate course)

Current Research:

• Virtual Bodies: Evolving Materiality in Cybernetics, Literature, and Information. Book-length manuscript tracing history of cybernetics from 1945-present and relating it to poststructural critical theory and contemporary literature.
• Riding the Cusp: The Interplay between Narrative and Formalisms, under contract to Routledge Press. An essay collection focused on showing the importance of narrative in a series of scientific sites, from game theory to sociobiology and artificial life.

Bibliography:

• References are available through my curriculum vitae.

Recent Publications:

• Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers which appeared in October 66, Fall 1993, © October Magazine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation which appeared in New Orleans Review, 18 (1991) and was reprinted in Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture edited by George Levine.
• Preview of How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.
• "Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety"
• "From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo"

Recent Tutorials:

• Electronic Textuality

Presentation at Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition

• "Prosthetic Rhetoric and the Posthuman Body"

email: hayles@humnet.ucla.edu