N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature at Duke University, teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory in 1998-99, and her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in 2002. Her work has been recognized by numerous fellowships and honors, including a Guggenheim, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship, and a University of California Presidential Research Fellowship. She is currently at work on a book entitled How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies.
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada