N. Katherine Hayles#
Membership Number: | 4144 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2015 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Duke University
- 2008 - present Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Literature Program, Duke University,
- 2008 - present Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2002 - 2008 John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature University of California, Los Angeles
- 2003 - 2008 Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2003 - 2008 Distinguished Professor, Design/Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
- 1992 - 2003 Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- 1990 - 1992 Professor of English, University of Iowa
- 1985 - 1989 Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa
- Fall 1988 Visiting Associate Professor of Literature, Caltech
- 1982 - 1985 Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Rolla
- 1979 - 1980 Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology
- 1976 - 1982 Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College
- 1975 - 1976 Instructor, Dartmouth College
- 1968 - 1970 Chemical Research Consultant, Beckman Instrument Company
- 1966 Research Chemist, Xerox Corporation
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical Theory; Science Fiction
- Electronic Textuality
- Modern and Postmodern American and British Fiction
- Literature, Science and Technology of the 20th and 21st Century
Honours and Awards
- 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2015 Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University UK
- Digital Publishing Grant, $10,000, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
- GreaterThanGames Humanities Laboratory, Co-Director, $225000 grant for 2011-2014
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Art College of Design, Pasadena CA
- 2010 Inductee, Innovation Hall of Fame, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate, Umea University, Sweden
- 2006 - 2007 Presidential Research Fellowship, University of California
- 2006 ASC Fellowship, National Humanities Center
- 2005 - 2006 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
- 2005 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Moscow University
- 2002 Susanne E. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, to Writing Machines
- 2001 Honorary Phi Beta Kappa Membership
- René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, awarded by the American Comparative
- Eaton Award for the Best Book in Science Fiction Theory and Criticism for 1998-99, awarded to How We Became Posthuman
- 2000 Council of the Humanities Fellowship, Princeton University
- 1999 Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, UCLA
- 1999 Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA
- 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1999 Bellagio Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation
- 1998 Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Rochester
- 1997 Medal of Honor, University of Helsinki
- 1997 Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Fantastic in the Arts