N. Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles is the Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the 20th and 21 st centuries. Her twelve print books include Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational (2021), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017) and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (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 has been recognized by many fellowships and awards, including two NEH Fellowships, a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, and two University of California Presidential Research Fellowships. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her latest book is Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts from University of Chicago Press.

From When We Became Posthuman, April 2025