Katherine Hayles at Umeå University

On Friday 19th October at 14:10 in Humanist Lecture Theater F, Professor Katherine Hayles will be giving the address for her honorary doctorate from Umeå University. It is open to the public so if you are in the area and want to witness a great mind in action come along. The topic is Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary.
In case you are unfamiliar with the work of Katherine Hayles:

. Katherine Hayles (16 December 1943 - ) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Other Books:
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, 2005
Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.), 2004
Writing Machines, 2002
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, 1999
Chaos and Order (ed.), 1991
Chaos Bound, 1990
The Cosmic Web, 1984