About Reprogrammable Girl.com This website has emerged as an experimental portion of my dissertation. I'm a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature. I have to write two dissertations, but, no, I do not get two PhDs. The critical portion of my dissertation explores the fashioning of the cyborg myth through a variety of monstrous bodies such as zombies, witches and vampires, to argue that dis-ease about the supernatural evolved into anxiety about science and technology, and that these fears are primarily born out of a capitalist apprehension of industry. Tracing these ideas in both literature and visual culture will reveal how forms of specialized knowledge, with particular regard to gender, sexuality and consumer culture, are simultaneously feared and revered through concepts of monstrosity. I am particularly interested in how anxieties about technology are inscribed onto the feminine, aligning female sexuality with fears regarding technology; where technology becomes not so much about production as it is about reproduction. The cyborg, a hybrid of flesh and machine, is a metaphor for the creature of the “border,” for which two different forms of coding can exist in one body. By no means do I wish to limit definitions to a single idea of the cyborg; instead, I thematically reimagine the duality that at one time composed its parts. A Cyborg of Her Own My creative disseration currently exists as a co-mixing of various forms and narratives, as the narratives progress, different technologies will be employed in order to evolve the reading environments in a mimesis of the development of communication technology through history. For, if it is only through the integration of technology that will allow us to investigate the effects of technological development on the conception of identities, selves, and minds of wo/man, then consequently the stories being told should be hybridized in a similarly liminal space; therefore, the form the stories take will prove to be equally as important as the stories themselves. Although my creative project will be housed in a different kind of flesh than biomatter, it does feature cybernetic components and it will occupy a similar subject position as the monstrous Other, inviting readers to dwell in the discomfort of the grey—you might even say all this has turned my creative dissertation into my very own little cyborg.