N. KATHERINE HAYLES
Address English Department P. O. Box 706,
22148 Monte Vista Road
University of California Topanga CA 90290
Los Angeles CA 90095-1530 (310)-455-1630 (voice)
(310)-825-3534
(voice)
(310)-206-50931 (fax); email hayles@
humnet.ucla.edu
Professional
Experience
Professor of
English and Design/Media Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1992-present
Professor of
English, University of Iowa, 1990-92
Associate
Professor of English, University of Iowa, 1985-1989
Visiting
Associate Professor of Literature, Caltech, Fall 1988
Assistant
Professor of English, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1982-85
Visiting
Associate, California Institute of Technology, 1979-80
Assistant
Professor of English, Dartmouth College, 1976-82
Instructor,
Dartmouth College, 1975-76
Chemical
Research Consultant, Beckman Instrument Company, 1968-70
Research
Chemist, Xerox Corporation, 1966
Fields
Literature
and Science of the Twentieth Century
Electronic
Textuality
Modern and
Postmodern American and British Fiction
Critical
Theory; Science Fiction
Academic
Honors and Fellowships
Rene Wellek Prize for the Best
Book in Literary Theory, 1998-99.
Eaton Award for the Best Book
in Science Fiction Criticism and Theory, 1998-99.
Humanities Council Fellow,
Princeton University, 2000
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
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Seminar Director, 1995 and 1998
Presidential
Research Fellowship, UCLA, 1995-96
Mellon Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Tulane University, 1994
Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford
Humanities Center, 1991-92
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1991-92
Millington F. Carpenter Professor of English,
University of
Iowa,
1989-92
Faculty Scholar Award, University of Iowa,
1986-89
Fellowship
to the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1986-87 (declined)
Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa,
Summer 1986
Wilson Center Fellow, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for
Scholars,
May-August, 1985
Weldon Spring Research Grant, UMR, Summer
1983
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow,
1979-80
Dartmouth Faculty Fellow, Fall 1979
New York State Science Teaching Fellow,
Caltech, 1966-68
Graduated with Highest Honors, RIT, 1966
Education
Ph.D. in
English Literature, University of Rochester, February 1977
M.A. in
English Literature, Michigan State University, June 1970
M.S. in
Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, June 1969
B.S. in
Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1966
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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).
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science.
(Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1991).
An essay
collection edited by Hayles.
Technocriticism
and Hypernarrative. A special issue of 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.) Winner of Rene
Wellek Prize
for Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999, American Comparative
Literature
Association. Winner of the Eaton Award
for the Best Book in Science Fiction
Theory and
Criticism, 1998-99. Named as one of
the best 25 books of 1999 by
Village
Voice.
Literature
for Posthumans,
Mediawork Pamphlet Series, MIT Press.
Anticipated completion, December
2001.
Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to
the Computer.
Under
contract to the University of Chicago Press.
Anticipated completion
December
2002.
Book Chapters
“Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media,”
in Memory
Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital
Culture, edited by Lauren
Rabinovitz, under
consideration at the University of California Press.
“(Un)masking
the Agent: Distributed Cognition and
Stanislaw Lem’s “The Mask,” Context
Providers” Context and Meaning in
Digital Arts, edited by Victoria Vesna, Margot
Lovejoy,
and Christiane Paul (Cambridge: MIT
Press, forthcoming 2002).
"Escape
and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of
Moving from Energy
To
Information," in From Energy to Information, edited by Linda
Henderson
and Bruce Clarke (forthcoming 2002, Stanford
University Press).
"Artificial
Life and Literary Culture," in Cyberspace Textuality:
Computer Culture and Literary Theory, edited by
Marie-Laure
Ryan (Indiana
University Press, 1999), pp. 205-223
"The Condition of
Virtuality," Language Machines:
Technologies of
Literary and Cultural
Production, edited by Jeffrey Masten,
Peter
Stallybrass and Nancy
Vickers (London and New York:
Routledge,
1997),
pp. 183-208. Reprinted in The
Digital Dialectic: New Essays on
New Media, edited by Peter Lunenfeld (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999),
pp. 68-95.
"Consolidating
the Canon," The Science Wars, edited by Andrew Ross
(Durham: Duke University Press, 1996), pp. 226-237.
"How Cyberspace Signifies:
Taking Immortality Literally," in Immortal
Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in
Science Fiction and
Fantasy, edited by George Slusser, Gary Westfahl, and Eric S. Rabkin
(Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1996), pp. 111-124.
"Voices
Out of Bodies and Bodies Out of Voices: Audiotape and the Production
of
Subjectivity," Sound States:
Innovative Poetics and Acoustical
Technologies, edited by Adalaide Morris (Chapel Hill:
University
of North Carolina Press, 1997), pp. 74-96.
"From
Self-Organization to Emergence: Aesthetic Implications of Shifting
Ideas
of Organization," in Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science
and Medicine, edited by Donald Herbert (Woodbury, NY: American
Institute
of Physics), pp. 133-157.
"Narratives
of Artificial Life" in Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture,
edited
by George Robertson, Melinda Mash, Lisa Tickner,
Jon
Bird, Barry Curtis and Tim Putnam (New York and London: Routledge,
1996), pp. 146-164. Reprinted in Images of Afar:
Theories of Remote
Sensing and Scientific Visualization (Copenhagen: Cultural City, 1996),
"Simulated
Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation between
The
Beholder and the World," in Uncommon Ground: Toward the
Reinvention of Nature, edited by William Cronon (New York: Norton,
1995), pp. 409-425.
"Embodied
Virtuality: Or How to Put Bodies Back into the Picture," in
Immersed
in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, edited by
Diana
Augaitis, Douglas MacLeod, and Mary Anne Moser (Cambridge:
MIT
Press, 1995), pp. 1-28.
"Searching
for Common Ground," in Reinventing Nature?: Responses to
Postmodern Deconstruction, edited by
Michael E. Soule and Gary Lease
(Washington,
D.C.: Island Press, 1995), pp. 45-60.
"Deciphering
the Rules of Unruly Disciplines: A Modest Proposal for
Literature
and Science," in Literature and Science, edited by Anthony
Purdy
(Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 25-48.
"Narratives
of Evolution and the Evolution of Narratives," in Cooperation and
Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes, ed. John L. Casti and
Anders
Karlqvist (New York: John Wiley and
Sons, 1994), pp. 113-132.
"The
Paradoxes of John Cage: Chaos, Time, and Irreversible Art" in
Permission
Granted: Composed in America,
ed. Marjorie Perloff and Charles
Junkerman (Chicago: University
of
Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 226-241.
"The
Seductions of Cyberspace," in Rethinking Technologies, ed. Verena
Conley
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). pp. 173-190.
"The Life Cycle of Cyborgs:
Writing the Posthuman," in A Question of
Identity: Women, Science, and Literature, ed. Marina
Benjamin (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1993), 152-172. Reprinted in
The Cyborg Handbook, ed. Chris Hables Gray (New York and London:
Routlege,
1995),
321-335. Reprinted in Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory,
Cyborgs and
Cyberspace, edited by Jenny Wolmark
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press,
2000), pp. 157-173.
"Turbulence in Literature and
Science: Questions of Influence," in
Science and the American
Imagination, ed. Robert Scholnick
(Lexington: University of Kentucky
Press, 1992), 229-250.
"'A metaphor of God Knew How
Many Parts': The Engine That Drives
The Crying of Lot 49," in The Crying of Lot 49: A Collection
of New Essays, ed. Patrick O'Donnell (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991) 197-213.
"Literature and
Science," in Literature and Criticism: A New
Century Guide, eds. Malcolm Kelsall et al. (London: Routledge,
1990) 1068-81.
"Self-Reflexive Metaphors in
Maxwell's Demon and Shannon's Choice:
Finding the Passages," in Literature
and Science: Theory and
Practice, ed. Stuart Peterfreund (Boston: Northeastern
University
Press, 1990) 209-38.
"Information or Noise? Economy of Explanation in Barthes's S/Z and
Shannon's Information
Theory," in One Culture: Essays in
Science and Literature, ed. George Levine (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1988) 119-142.
"Metaphysics and Metafiction
in The Man in the High Castle, in
Philip K. Dick, Writers of the
21st Century Series (New York:
Taplinger, 1983) 53-72.
"Androgyny, Ambivalence and
Assimilation in The Left Hand of
Darkness", in Ursula K. Le Guin, Writers of the 21st
Century
Series (New York: Taplinger, 1979) 97-115.
“Flesh and Metal:
Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments,” Configurations
(forthcoming
2002).
"Print is Flat, Code is
Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific
Analysis,"
in Poetics
Today (forthcoming 2001). Also
included in Interactive Frictions, edited by Marsha Kinder et al.,
University of
California Press (forthcoming 2002).
“Metaphoric
Networks in Lexia to Perplexia,” Electronic Art and Animation Catalog,
edited Dena Eber (New York:
ACM SIGGRAPH,
2001), pp. 31-34. Also included in Digital
Creativity (forthcoming 2001) and
First
Person: New Media as Story, Performance
and Game, edited by Pat Harrigan and
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Cambridge: MIT Press,
forthcoming 2002).
“Desiring
Agency: Limiting Metaphors and Enabling
Constraints in Dawkins and Deleuze/Guattari,”
SubStance
94/94 (2001): 144-160.
“The
Materiality of the Medium: Hypertext
Narrative in Print and New Media,”
Narrative
9.1 (January 2001): 21-39.
“Visualizing the Posthuman,” Art Journal
59, no. 3 (forthcoming Fall 2000), 50-54.
"Adam
Ross: Paranoid Utopias," Art/Text
(forthcoming Summer 2000).
"The Invention of Copyright and the
Birth of Monsters: Flickering
Connectivities
in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl,"
Journal of Postmodern Culture 10.2 (January 2000):
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/
"Simulated Narratives: What Virtual Creatures Can Teach
Us," Critical
Inquiry 26, no. 1 (Autumn 1999):
1-26.
"The
Illusion of Autonomy and the Fact of Recursivity: Virtual
Ecologies,
Entertainment, and Virtual Jest," New Literary
History 30, no. 3 (Summer 1999):
675-697.
"Schizoid
Android: Cybernetics and the
Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K.
Dick,"
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 8 (1998): 22-45.
"The
Posthuman Body: Inscription and
Incorporation in
Galatea
2.2 and Snow Crash," Configurations 2 (1997): 241-266.
"Corporeal
Anxiety in Dictionary of the Khazars:
What Books
Talk
about in the Late Age of Print When They Talk
About
Losing Their Bodies," Modern Fiction Studies 43 (Fall
1997): 800-820.
"Boundary Work with a
Vengeance," Arachne , 2, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 3-15.
"Making the Cut: The Interplay
of Narrative and System, or What System
Theory Can't
See," Cultural Critique No.
30 (Spring 1995): 71-100. Reprinted
in Observing
Complexity: Systems Theory and
Postmodernity, edited by
William Rasch and Cary
Wolfe (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2000).:
137-162.
"Theory of a Different Order: A
Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and
Katherine
Hayles," Cultural Critique
31 ( Fall 1995): 7-37.
Reprinted in
Observing
Complexity: Systems Theory and
Postmodernity, edited by
William Rasch and Cary
Wolfe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2000):
111-136.
"Boundary
Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity, and the Foundations of
Cybernetics,"
Configurations: A Journal For Literature, Science, and
Technology 3 ( 1994):
441-467. Reprinted in Virtual
Realities and Their
Discontents, edited by Robert Markley (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University
Press, 1995).
"Virtual
Bodies and Flickering Signifiers," October 66 (Fall 1993):
66-92.
Reprinted
in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation,
edited
by Timothy Druckrey (New York:
Aperture, 1996), pp. 259-278.
"Chaotics:
Culture and Chaos," Louisiana Revy 33, no. 2 (February 1993): 6-9.
"The
Materiality of Informatics," Configurations: A Journal of Literature,
Science and Technology 1 (Winter 1993): 147-70. Reprinted in Issues
In Integrative Studies 10 (1992): 121-144.
"Gender
Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine
Flows,"
differences 4 (Summer 1992):
16-44.
"Constrained Constructivism:
Locating Scientific Inquiry in
the Theater of Representation," New Orleans Review,
18 (1991): 76-85.
Reprinted in Realism and Representation,: Essays
on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and
Culture
ed. George Levine (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1993), 27-43.
"'Who Was Saved?': Families,
Snitches, and Recuperation in
Pynchon's Vineland,"
Critique, 32 (1990): 77-92.
Reprinted in The
Vineland Papers: Critical Takes
on Pynchon's Novel, edited by
Geoffrey
Green, Donald J. Greiner, and
Larry McCaffery (Normal, IL: Dalkey
Archive Press, 1993).
"Postmodern Parataxis: Embodied Texts, Weightless
Information,"
American Literary History, 2 ( 1990): 394-421.
"Designs on the Body:
Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, and the Play of
Metaphor," History of the
Human Sciences, 3 (1990): 212-228.
"Two Voices, One Channel:
Equivocation in Michel Serres," SubStance
57 (1988): 3-11.
"Chaos as Orderly Disorder:
Shifting Ground in Literature and Science,"
New Literary History 2 (Winter 1989): 305-322.
"Text Out of Context:
Situating Postmodernism in an Information
Society," Discourse 9
(Spring-Summer 1987): 24-36.
"Space for Writing: Stanislaw
Lem and the Dialectic 'That Guides
My Pen,'" Science-Fiction
Studies 13 (November, 1986): 292-312.
Anthologized in Jerzy Jarzebski,
ed., Teksty Drugie 3 (1992):
5-29.
"Anger In Different Voices:
Carol Gilligan and The Mill on the Floss,"
Signs 12 (Autumn, 1986): 23-39.
N. K. Hayles and Mary Eiser,
"Coloring Gravity's Rainbow," Pynchon
Notes, 16 (Spring, 1985): 3-24.
"Cosmology and the Point of
(No) Return in Gravity's Rainbow,"
Markham Review, 12 (1983): 73-77.
"The Ambivalent Approach: D.
H. Lawrence and the New Physics,"
Mosaic, 15 (September, 1982): 89-108.
"Making a Virtue of
Necessity: Pattern and Freedom in Nabokov's
Ada", Contemporary Literature, 23 (Winter,
1982): 32-51.
"An Imperfect Art: Competing
Patterns in More Than Human",
Extrapolation, 22 (Spring, 1981): 13-24.
N. K. Hayles and Kathryn
Rindskoff, "The Shadow of Violence,"
The Journal of Popular Film, 8 (1981): 2-8.
"Sexual Disguise in Cymbeline",
Modern Language Quarterly, 41
(September, 1980): 231-247.
"Sexual Disguise in As You
Like It and Twelfth Night", Shakespeare
Survey 32, ed. Kenneth Muir (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1979) 63-72.
F. C. Anson, N. K. Hayles and R.
D. Frisbee, "The Absence of a
Detectable Potential-Dependence of
the Transfer of Coefficient
in the Cr+2/Cr+3
Reaction," Journal of the
Electrochemical
Society, 117 (April, 1970): 477-82.
“The
Complexities of Seriation,” Response to special issue essays, PMLA
(forthcoming 2002).
“The
Human in the Posthuman,” Afterword to special issue, Cultural Critique
(forthcoming 2002).
"Cognition
on a Desert Island," Commentary on Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the
Wild,
Genre
(forthcoming 2001).
"Commentary,"
Progressive Dinner Party, Riding the Meridian, Spring 2000.
http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/templates/Dinner/haylesfr.htm
"Preface," Embodying
Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing
in Mark Hansen (Ann Arbor:
University
of Michigan Press, 2000).
"Auto-Projection: Fuchs' Evolutionary Tale," exhibition
catalogue,
Landmark
Gallery, Texas Tech University, December 1999.
"Enlightened Chaos," in Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the
Enlightenment, edited by Theodore E. D. Braun and John A. McCarthy
(Amsterdam,
Vienna, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp.
1-5.
Review of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative,
South
Atlantic Review (Spring 1999),
140-141.
"Hot.List,"
Artforum (October 1998), 33.
"Interrogating
the Posthuman Body" (review of Anne Balsamo's
Technologies of the Gendered Body and Judith Halberstam and Ira
Livingston's
Posthuman Bodies), Contemporary Literature
38,
no. 4 (1997): 171-78.
"Engineering
Cyborg Ideology" (review of Diane Greco's Cyborg:
Engineering the Body Electric), Electronic Book Review,
And
American Book Review 17, no. 2 (December-January 1995-6), 3.
"Walking in Water"
(review of Michael Joyce's Of Two Minds:
Hypertext Poetics and Pedagogy), Scientific American, 274, No. 1
(January 1996), 104-5.
"Hypertext
Hamlet," Humanities 16, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1995): 23-27.
"From
Transylvania to Transgender," review of
The
War Between Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical
Age,
Allucquere Roseanne Stone (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), Art +
Text,
52 (1995), 31-32.
Review
of Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific
Inquiry,
Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler,
Isis: An International Review Devoted to the
History of Science
and its Cultural Influences, 85, no. 4
(1994): 743-44.
"The
Embodiment of Meaning," Response to Herbert Simon, Stanford Humanities
Review,
4 (1994): 62-64.
"Particles
and Paste," review of Kathryn Hume's Calvino's Fictions: Cogito
Cosmos,"
London Times Higher Education Supplement (April 30,
1993),
21.
"World
Without Ground," review of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive
Science
and Human Experience by Francisco Valera, Evan
Thompson,
and Eleanor Rosch, The American Book Review 14,
no.
1 (April/May 1992) 13.
"Trusting
the Material," review of The Cybernetics Group by
Steve
Heims, History of the Human Sciences 5, no. 2 (1992), 92.
"The Rip Van Winkle
Syndrome," review of Lorelei Cederstrom's
Fine-Tuning the Feminine
Psyche: Jungian Patterns in
the Novels of Doris Lessing, Science-Fiction Studies,
19 (1992): 96-98.
"The Borders of
Madness," Response to Jean Baudrillard,
Science-Fiction Studies 18 (1991): 321-323.
"Fractured Mandala: The
Inescapable Ambiguities of Gravity's
Rainbow," review of Steven Weisenberg's Companion to
Gravity's
Rainbow, Pynchon Notes, 24-25 (Spring-Fall 1989),
129-32.
"The Nature of Women,"
Review of Linda Woodbridge's Women and the
English Renaissance, Modern Language Quarterly 46 (December
1985): 378-380.
"Women, Literature and a
Small-Town Library," Show-Me Libraries
36 (April 1985): 15-18.
"The Perils of Theory," Review
of Robert Nadeau's Readings from the
New Book on Nature, Science, Technology and Human Values, 8
(1983): 52-54.
N. K. Hayles and Kathryn
Rindskoff, "Cruising the Shadows,"
Psychological Perspectives, 11 (1980): 227-231.
"Science Fiction: Contemporary
Mythology," Galileo (September,
1978): 90-91.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Recent Selected
Presentations
"Linking
Bodies: Hypertext Narrative in Print
and New Media," Ropes Distinguished
Lecture, University
of Cincinnati, February 2000.
"The Importance
of Embodiment: Gender and Cognitive
Science," Modern Language
Association, December 1999.
Keynote
Address, "Deconstructing Time in Hypertext Fiction," Digital Arts
Conference,
Atlanta GA, October 1999.
"The
Specificity of Media," Invited lecture, Y2K Conference, Brown University,
November 1999.
"Embodiment
and the Posthuman," Invited lecture, Harvard University, November 1999.
"Posthuman
Ideology: Technophobia, Technoecstacy,
and the Subversion of the
Liberal Subject," American
Studies Association, October 1999.
"Hypertext
and the Merging of Image and Text," Landmark Gallery Lecture
Series, Texas Tech University,
October 1999.
"Hypertext
and the Spiral of Time," Rockefeller Center, Bellagio Italy, September
1999.
"The
Schizoid Android in Philip K. Dick's Novels of the Mid-Sixties,"
Distinguished
Guest Lecture, International Association of Fantastic
in the Arts, March 1997.
"How We Became
Posthuman," The Rector's Distinguished Guest Lecture,
University of Helsinki, October
1997.
Keynote Address, "Narratives in
Science: How Scientists Create
Meaning,"
Society for Literature and
Science, October 1997.
Editorial Boards, Executive
Positions, Service to Profession
Co-Chair, Literature and
Science Series, University of Michigan Press.
Co-Chair, Electronic
Mediation Series, University of Minnesota Press.
Board of Literary Advisors, Electronic Literature
Organization
President,
Society for Literature and Science, 1991-93; First Vice-President,
1989-91;
Second Vice-President 1987-89.
Advisory
Board, PMLA, 1996-99.
Executive Committee,
Literature and Science Division, Modern
Language
Association, 1988-92.
Modern Language Association
Prize Committee, 1994-97; chair 1997.
Editorial
Board, Modern Fiction Studies
Editorial
Board, Contemporary Literature
Editorial Board, Comparative Literature Studies
Board of Consultants, Science-Fiction
Studies.
Editorial Board, Configurations:
A Journal for Literature, Science,
and Technology.
Editorial Board, Para.doxa