Hayles, N Katherine
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1943- ) US academic and Postmodern literary critic, professor and director of graduate studies in literature at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. As a critic, Hayles is concerned to explore the links between science, literature and Technology. Her Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (1990) contains much of genre interest. It was followed by How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999), an important study of the prospective Posthuman condition as it emerges from fictional and real-life Avatars and Virtual Realities; this book won an Eaton Award.
Hayles has received genre-related career honours for her work: the IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship in 1997 and the Pilgrim Award in 2013. [DRL]
see also: Feminism.
Nancy Katherine Hayles
born St Louis, Missouri: 16 December 1943
works (selected)
nonfiction
- Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990) [nonfiction: hb/]
- How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1999) [nonfiction: pb/]
works as editor
links
- Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1991) [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
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