Electronic Literature: Playing, Interpreting, Teaching

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.