One Book, One Campus 2005-2006 Events |
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Mutable Bodies and Philip K. Dick Please join us for a discussion on Philip K. Dick, mutable bodies, and the One Book, One Campus title, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? at 7:30 p.m. in the Franklin D. Schurz Library, Fifth Floor Atrium. N. Katherine 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 published in September by the University of Chicago Press. This event was made possible by the support of the Student Government Association and the Friends of the Schurz Library. For more information, please e-mail jmfelli@iusb.edu
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