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Dr. Hayles was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on January 2nd, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews

Katherine Hayles is a professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University. She is a postmodern literary critic, particularly in the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, and her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. She worked as a research chemist in 1966 at Xerox Corporation and as a chemical research consultant Beckman Instrument Company from 1968-1970. Hayles then switched fields and received her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977. She is a social and literary critic. Her scholarship focuses upon the “relations between science, literature, and technology.”Hayles has taught at UCLA, University of Iowa, University of Missouri–Rolla, the California Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth College. She was the faculty director of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2001-2006.