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N. Katherine Hayles

Author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

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N. Katherine Hayles is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and James B. Duke Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University. Her books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999) and unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017).
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Hayles, Nancy Katherine
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1943-12-16
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Saint-Louis, Missouri, Etats-Unis
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University of Rochester (PhD)
Michigan State University (MA)
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Rochester Institute of Technology (BS)
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University of California, Los Angeles
University of Iowa
University of Missouri–Rolla
California Institute of Technology
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Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching ( [1999])
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award ( [1999])
Distinguished Scholar Award ( [1998])
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Distinguished Scholar Award ( [1997])
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Hayles was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to Edward and Thelma Bruns. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, and her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. She worked as a research chemist in 1966 at Xerox Corporation and as a chemical research consultant Beckman Instrument Company from 1968-1970. Hayles then switched fields and received her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977.
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