Katherine Hayles, Duke University "The Cognitive Nonconscious: Implications for the Humanities"
Department: English
Date and Time: November 21, 2014 | 11:00 AM-1:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
The Department of English Presents
Katherine Hayles
Duke University
"The Cognitive Nonconscious: Implications for the Humanities"
Humanities Gateway 1030
11:00 a.m.
Friday, November 21, 2014
N. Katherine Hayles is Professor in the Literature Program at Duke
University. She has a background in Chemistry (MS) and English (PhD);
she worked as chemical research consultant before shifting fields to
English Literature. Her interests include digital humanities; electronic
literature; literature, science and technology; science fiction; and
critical theory.
Hayles is the author of numerous books, including How We Became
Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics
(1999), for which she won the Rene Wellek Prize. Her most recent
publications are Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
(2008), a primer of electronic literature; My Mother Was a Computer:
Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005); Nanoculture: Implications of
the New Technoscience (ed.) (2004). Hayles has won numerous prestigious
awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residential
Fellowship, and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the
University of California.
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