N. Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature

External address: 
101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Internal office address: 
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Phone: 
(919) 684-4127
Email: 
katherine.hayles@duke.edu

Digital Humanities; Electronic Literature; Literature, Science, and Technology; Science Fiction; Critical Theory

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Rochester 1977
  • M.A., Michigan State University 1970
  • M.S., California Institute of Technology 1969
  • B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology 1966

Research Areas

Film and New Media, Literary and Cultural Studies, Modernism and Modernity, Science Studies, The Americas and the US

Hayles, N. K. “Androgyny, Ambivalence, and Assimilation in "The Left Hand of Darkness".” Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Joseph D. Olander, Taplinger, 1979, pp. 97–115.

Hayles, N. K. “Sexual Disguise in "As You Like It" and "Twelfth Night".” Shakespeare Survey Volume 32: The Middle Comedies, Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 63–72.

Hayles, N. K. “The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event.” New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, MIT Press, pp. 181–210.

Hayles, N. K. “RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments.” Throughout, MIT Press.

Pages

Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome (Review of Lorelei Cederstrom's "Fine-Tuning the Feminine Psyche: Jungian Patterns in the Novels of Doris Lessing").” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 19, SF-TH, Mar. 1992, pp. 96–98.

Hayles, N. K. “Gender Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine Flows.” Differences, vol. 4, Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 16–44.

Hayles, N. Katherine. “World Without Ground (Review of Francisco Valera, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch's "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience").” American Book Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 1992, pp. 13–13.

Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Borders of Madness (Response to Jean Baudrillard).” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 18, SF-TH, Nov. 1991, pp. 321–29.

Hayles, N. Katherine. “Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation.” New Orleans Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 76–85.

Hayles, N. K. “'Who was Saved?': Families, Snitches, and Recuperation in Pynchon's 'Vineland'.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 32, no. 2, Dec. 1990, pp. 77–91. Manual, doi:10.1080/00111619.1990.9933801. Full Text

Hayles, N. K. “Designs on the body: Norbert Wiener, cybernetics, and the play of metaphor.” History of the Human Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, Jan. 1990, pp. 211–28. Scopus, doi:10.1177/095269519000300204. Full Text

Hayles, N. Katherine. “Postmodern Parataxis: Embodied Texts, Weightless Information.” American Literary History, vol. 2, no. 3, Jan. 1990, pp. 394–421. Manual, doi:10.1093/alh/2.3.394. Full Text

Hayles, N. K. “Designs on the Body: Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, and the Play of Metaphor.” History of the Human Sciences, vol. 3, SAGE Publications, 1990, pp. 212–28.

Hayles, N. K. “Fractured Mandala: The Inescapable Ambiguities of "Gravity's Rainbow" (Review of Steven Weisenberg's "Companion to "Gravity's Rainbow"").” Pynchon Notes, 1989, pp. 24–25.

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