Katherine Hayles
(Joint Professor with Department of English)
Katherine Hayles’s recent book Writing Machines (MIT Press), won the Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. An experimental work that is at once a visual and a verbal argument, the book is a collaboration with designer Anne Burdick. Along with Design | Media Arts Chair Victoria Vesna and the UCLA Chemistry department’s Jim Gimzewski, Professor Hayles participated in the exhibition Nano at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, developing a book accompanying the exhibition, NanoCulture: Implications of the New Technoscience. NanoCulture, which will also be translated into Italian and Korean editions, was published in April 2004 and features essays by six UCLA literature and D|MAgraduate students and a preface by Professor Roy Ascott. Hayles’s newest book, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, will be published by University of Chicago Press in September 2005.
Dr. Katherine Hayles- Joint Professor with English Dept. B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D. University of Rochester. Publications: The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999, and Writing Machines, which won the Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship.
Katherine Hayles "Being in Between: Design|Media Arts Faculty Lecture":
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http://dma.ucla.edu/gallery/faculty_gallery.php?ID=146
http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/