UC Riverside Mellon Workshop on The Global Interface and The Center for Ideas and Society present

"My Mother Was a Computer:
Digital Subjects and Literary Texts"

N. Katherine Hayles
12pm October 4, 2004

15oo HMNSS Bldg.
UC Riverside

This talk will be drawn from her forthcoming book of that title, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2005. Her talk will be the first in a year-long series of interdisciplinary discussions on cyberculture.

For directions and other info:
http://globalinterface.blogspot.com/

N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA professor of literatature and science in the 20th and 21st century; electronic textuality, hypertext fiction and theory; science fiction; and media theory. She is the author of numerous distinguished works on post-human subjectivity, technologies of writing, and digital narrativity, including: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999), which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999, and her semi-autobiographical collaboration with artist Anne Burdick, Writing Machines (2002).


contact:Mark Marino and Michael Leblanc at:
global_interface@hotmail.com