N.
Katherine Hayles,
Distinguished Professor
B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology, Chemistry, 1966; M.S.,
California Institute of Technology, Chemistry, 1969; M.A., Michigan
State University, English, 1970; Ph.D., University of Rochester,
English, 1977.
Interests: Literature and science in the 20th and 21st century;
20th and 21st century American fiction; electronic textuality,
hypertext fiction and theory; science fiction; literary theory,
media theory.
Selected
Works: The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary
Strategies in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1984); Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature
and Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). Translated
into Spanish as La Evolucion del Caos: El Orden dentro del desorden
en las ciencias contemporaneas (Barcelona: Gedisa, 1993); Editor,
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1991); Technocriticism and Hypernarrative
( Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 3, Fall 1997) guest-edited by
Hayles, with introduction and article; How We Became Posthuman:
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999); Writing Machines (MIT Press,
2001); My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary
Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Additional Information: Her book, How We Became Posthuman:
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, won
the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for
1998-1999, and Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for
Outstanding Scholarship. She is currently working on two projects,
a primer of electronic literature (uinder contract to the University
of Notre Dame Press) and a study of narrative and database (under
contract to the University of Chicao Press). Her awards include
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. She has received a Distinguished Scholar Award
from the University of Rochester, the Medal of Honor from the
University of Helsinki, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from
the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. She
was also awarded the Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching
Award for 1999 and the Eby Award for Distinguished Undergraduate
Teaching in 1999.
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