N. Katherine Hayles, a specialist in the literature of technology, will be the guest speaker at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, in the fifth floor atrium of the Franklin D. Schurz Library. Her talk is part of the library’s presentation on Philip K. Dick, mutable bodies, and the One Book, One Campus title, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Hayles is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Her recent book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her latest book Writing Machines won the Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her new book, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts was set to be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.

She has received numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship and a Presidential Research Fellowship from the University of California. She has received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Rochester, the Medal of Honor from the University of Helsinki, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

She has advanced degrees in both English literature and chemistry.

For more information, please visit the One Book, One Campus web site at: http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/onebook, e-mail jmfelli@iusb.edu or call (574) 520-4410.