Electronic Literature: Playing, Interpreting, Teaching

N. Katherine Hayles

Thursday, 01 Mar 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

N. Katherine Hayles, a professor of English at UCLA, is the author of many books, the most recent being My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Infomatics won the Rene Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association for the best book in literary theory for 1998-99. Her other distinctions include two NEH Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Presidential Research Fellowship from the University of California, and the Medal of Honor from the University of Helskini. She is the former president of the Society for Literature and Science. The 2007 Goldtrap Lecture.

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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.

Cosponsored By:

• COL
• Computer Science
• English/Goldtrap Fund
• Greenlee
• History
• LAS Miller Fund
• Philosophy
• Women's Studies
• World Languages
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)