Portfolio in English Literature: Programmed to Flirt: The Gendered Technological Body in R.U.R and Ex Machina

Abstract

In this portfolio I first introduce the content of my work throughout my graduate studies in my Portfolio Statement. I then begin my lead paper on the gendered technological bodies present in Karl ?apek�s play R.U.R. and the film Ex Machina. I interrogate both works in light of N. Katherine Hayles�s seminal work How We Became Posthuman in order to demonstrate how gendered technological bodies present a problem to the kind of utopian posthumanism Hayles theorizes.