Katherine Hayles (University of California at Los Angeles)
N. Katherine Hayles is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature in the English Department with a joint appointment in Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes and teaches on relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman won the René Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book Writing Machines won the Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her latest book, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, was published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2005. She is currently at work on a study of the interrelation of narrative and database.
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