Katherine Hayles is the James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University.  She writes and teaches on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research has been recognized by numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, and a Presidential Research Fellowship at the University of California. In 2015 she served as the Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her book “How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics” won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book “Writing Machines” won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her present book project is entitled “The Cognitive Nonconscious:  Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities.” www.nkhayles.com