N. Katherine Hayles

Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Literature from Duke University. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her twelve print books include Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational (Columbia, 2021), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017) and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015), in addition to over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Her books have won several prizes, including The Rene Wellek Award for the Best Book in Literary Theory for How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics, and the Suzanne Langer Award for Writing Machines. She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is currently at work on Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts.