Curriculum Vitae: Michael Joyce 

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Fiction and Hypermedia

     Liam's Going, a novel, Kingston, NY: McPherson & Company, August 2002.

     Sister Stories, collaborative hypertext fiction (with Rosemary Joyce and Carolyn Guyer), New York University Press On-line, November, 2000.

     The Sonatas of Saint Francis, collaborative hypertext fiction (with Matthew Hanlon, Andrea Morris, and Carolyn Guyer), Supertart.com (UK), October 2000.

     "Reach, a fiction," The Iowa Review Online, Spring 2000.

     "Lasting Image," Collaborative hypertext fiction (with Carolyn Guyer), Eastgate Systems, 1999.

     "Storm-Tossed" and "White Moths," short stories, The Iowa Review, 1999

     "On the Birthday of the Stranger," hyperfiction, inaugural work for the online version of the Evergreen Review, 1999.

     "Joyce in Berlin," Hörspiel (voice play) for Osmotic Minds: Berlin Alexanderplatz 5.0, by Stefan Schemat, Hilmar Schmundt, Michael Joyce, and Isabella Bordoni,  Augmented Reality Fiction, Berlin, February 27, 1999. (Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica, 1999.)

     Twilight, hyperfiction novel, Eastgate Systems, 1996.

     Twelve Blue, world-wide-web hyperfiction, Postmodern Culture and Eastgate Systems (co-published) , 1996 and 1997.

     Mola, world-wide-web interactive project (http://scribble.com/world3/) with Carolyn Guyer, Nigel Kerr, Nancy Lin, and Suze Schweitzer. 1995

     Hypertext fiction, "Lucy's Sister: A Guide to the Internet," Works and Days, 12 (1&2), bound-in computer disk, Spring/Fall 1994.

     "Myself," RIF/T Version 1.1, Electronic journal (inaugural edition), 1993.

     Hypertext fiction, "WOE," Writing on the Edge, 2 (2), bound-in computer disk, UC Davis, 1991.

     Hypertext fiction, Afternoon, a story, Eastgate Systems, Cambridge, MA, 1990. (Italian translation, Afternoon /Pomeriggio,  Elettro Libri, Human Systems, Milano, 1993.) Anthologized selections from afternoon, a story. in Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction, Paula Geyh, Andrew Levy, and Fred Leebron eds., 1998.

     The War Outside Ireland, a novel, Tinkers Dam Press, 1982.

     Translation, Cherry Orchard, translated with Mischa Cain, production staged, Jackson Civic Theatre 1980.

 

Exhibitions, performance work, mixed media, etc

 

     Canzoni di morte " a trial mix,"  recorded voice and text by Michael Joyce, video by Anita Panti, music for English horn and solo voice by Bruce Pennycook, choreography and dance by José Bustamante, University of Texas, Austin, February 2004.

     indécritions: works in progress, texts and images with Alexandra Grant,  Cube Gallery, Calarts, February 2004

     Nimbus, text for kinetic sculpture by Alexandra Grant, page_space exhibition, Machine Project Gallery, Los Angeles February-March, 2004.

     Heide & Lude"  interactive dramatic dialogue for GPS based collaborative "Roaming Fiction" with multimedia artists Stefan Schemat and Heiko Idensen, Japanese Garden at Planten und Blomen,  Hamburg, Germany. 2002

 

Scholarly Books, published lectures, etc.

 

A Web of Caring: The book as it was to us, Eight Annual Adam Helms Lecture,  Svenska Förläggareföreningen (Swedish Publishers Association) and Stockholm University Library, 2001.

Moral Tales and Meditations:Technological Parables and Refractions, with an afterword by Hélène Cixous, State University of New York Press, Fall 2001.

Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture, University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

 

Scholarship

 

"How do I know I am Finnish?  Or the computer and the literary artist," in Art from Start to Finish, collected essays and responses from "The Work Itself" conference sponsored by The Social Sciences Research Council, Howard S. Becker, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, editors.

"'We thought we could sit forever in fun': New Media and Literary Studies" New Media & Society Fifth Anniversary Issue, "What's Changed About New Media?" Vol 6 (1) pp. 77-80, London, Thousand Oaks, CA, and New Delhi" Sage Publications, 2004

"Café Cul-de-Sac: made up spaces,"The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Fall 2003.

"Noone Tells You This: secondary orality and hypertextuality," Oral Tradition, Fall 2003.

 A Marriage that Might Have Been" in Without Covers, eds. Lesha Hurliman and  Ralph Burns, Sycamore Review and Purdue Press, 2002.

"Then again who isn't: post-hypertextual rhetorics," in Silicon Literacies, Ilana Snyder, ed., Routledge. 2002.

"Voices Carry Outside the Discipline," Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce in Rosemary A. Joyce, The Languages of Archaeology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

"Had we but words enough" American Letters & Commentary  Symposium #13. Picture This: When the Word is not Enough, Fall 2001.

"Freeze dried and liquid spaces: narrative (hyper)architectures," Revue: éc/art S,  Roanne, France, September, 2000.

"Ourselves own images: post-hypertextual and new media," with Jay David Bolter, Works and Days, 33/34, 35/36, special issue on identity and technology, Spring 2000.

Book Review, "Lyman Gilmore, Don't Touch the Poet: The Life and Times of Joel Oppenheimer," North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 2000.

On Boundfulness: The Space of Hypertext Bodies in Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations, Jon May, Phil Crang and Michael Crang, eds., Routledge, 1999

Ordinary Fiction, in Paradoxa,  Special issue "The Future of Narrative: Speculative Criticism," Summer 1999.

"Beyond next before you once again: Repossessing and Renewing Electronic Culture" in Critical Reflections on Literacy and Technology: Confronting the Issues, Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe, eds., University of Utah Press, 1999.

"Methodologies for Computing in the Humanities," Computing and the Humanities, ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 41, National Research Board (National Academy of Sciences), 1998.

"The lingering errantness of place" in The Emerging CyberCulture: Literacy, Paradigm, and Paradox  Stephanie Gibson and  Lance Strate, eds. Hampton Press, 1998.

"Songs of Thyselves"  in High Wired  Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Nonce Upon Sometimes: Rereading Hypertext Fictions in  Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 43, No. 3, guest-edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Sept.-Oct. 1997. Collected in Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading  David Galef ed, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.

 "New Stories for New Readers: Narrative Contour, Coherence, and Constructive Hypertext"  in Page to screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era, Ilana Snyder, ed., Melbourne: Allen&Unwin, 1997.

"Walk four ways one time: Narrative coherencies," collaborative essay with Carolyn Guyer, Peg Syverson, and Marjorie Leusebrink, PRE/TEXT (A Journal of Rhetorical Theory) Special Double Issue on "Virtual Rhetorics"  1997.

"MOO or Mistakeness," Works and Days 25/26 (Summer-Fall 1995). http://www.iup.edu/en/workdays/TOC.html

"My Body The Library: " review/ essay, American Book Review, December 1995. Co-published in the inaugural issue of Electronic Book Review ( http:/www.altx.com/ebr)

"Page Versus Pixel: the cultural consequences of electronic text." with Sven Birkerts, Carolyn Guyer, Bob Stein  FEED magazine (inaugural issue) http://www.feedmag.com/95.05dialog1.html, June 1995.

"(Re)Placing the Author: "A Book in the Ruins," in The Future of the Book, Geoffrey Nunberg, ed., Brepols , University of California Press, 1996.

"One story: present tense spaces of the heart " in In Memoriam To Postmodernism: Essays On The Avant-Pop, Mark Amerika and Lance Olsen, editors, SDSU Press (CA) 1996.

"Hypertext/Hypermedia," in Encyclopedia of English Studies Language Arts, Allen C. Purves, General Editor, NCTE and Scholastic Inc., 1994

Ingrate's Expectations: What's a book supposed to do?" cover essay, American Book Review, Feb/March 1994.

"Ohio Zen," RIF/T Version 1.1, Electronic journal (inaugural edition), 1993.

Mark Bernstein, Michael Joyce, and David Levine, "Contours of Constructive Hypertext," ECHT'92: Proceedings of the ACM, 1992.

"A feel for prose: Interstitial links and the contours of hypertext," Writing on the Edge, 3 (1), UC Davis, 1992.

"Hypertext Narrative," Perforations, Public Domain, Atlanta, 3, Spring/Summer 1992.

"New Teaching: Toward a pedagogy for a new cosmology" Computers and Composition, 9:2, (April, 1992).

"Storyspace as a hypertext system for writers and readers of varying ability," Hypertext '91: Proceedings of the ACM, 1991.

Mark Bernstein, Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and Elli Mylonas, "Architectures for Volatile Hypertext," Hypertext '91: Proceedings of the ACM, 1991.

"The momentary advantage of our awkwardness," in Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, 1991.

"Notes Toward an Unwritten Nonlinear Electronic Text, 'The Ends of Print Culture,'" Postmodern Culture, 2:1, (September, 1991)   Russian translation by Arkadii T. Dragomoshchenko, "Iskusstvo  Kino" [Art of the Cinema] #10, Moscow, 1993.

"Selfish Interaction: subversive texts and the multiple novel," in Berk and Devlin, Eds. The Hypertext/ Hypermedia Handbook (McGraw Hill, 1991).

"Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts," Academic Computing, November, 1988.

Jay David Bolter and Michael Joyce, "Hypertext and Creative Writing," Hypertext '87: Proceedings of the ACM, November 1987.

"Getting it Right: Joel Oppenheimer's Poetry," North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 1987.

"The Geography of the Word: the Textfile as Landscape," Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Volume 7, Number 4, 1987.

Michael Joyce and Mark Harris, "A microcomputer environment for teaching technical writing," Issues in Higher Education, Kansas State University, March, 1986.

"Teaching Composition in a New Elizabethan Age," College English, 1978.

 

Journalism, dance and book reviews in various publications; Faculty advisor, student newspaper, The Phoenix, JCC 1980-82; Associate Editor, University of Iowa News Service, 1973.  Technical writing, Better Business Bureau (Buffalo, NY) 1971-72; Institute for Developmental Studies, New York University, 1968-70.

 

Editorial boards:  Postmodern Culture, 2000-present,Works and Days 1995-present; Computers and Composition 1992-present; Media Ecology,, 1996-1998; Apple Curriculum Technical Guides, 1991; WPA: Journal for Writing Program Administrators (MLA) 1977-79; and Prison Arts, 1976.

 

SELECTED Professional activities

 

Featured speaker, "Machine Poetics," CalArts Writing Program and the Center for Integrated Media, (with Alexandra Grant) February, 2003;Keynoter, "Transparencies - Technology and Culture" Graduate Student Conference, UT Austin Radio-TV-Film Department, February 2004; Featured Fiction Writer, Canisius College - 2003-2004 Contemporary Writers Series  November, 2003; Featured speaker, Pomona College Colloquium on Attention and the Arts, February, 2003; Featured speaker, "Willful Misunderstanding: being translated," Grenzen der Wissenschaft Seminar, Kulturwissenschaftlichen Seminar and Institut für Informatik Humboldt University, Berlin, 2002;  Eighth Annual Adam Helms Lecture,  Svenska Förläggareföreningen (Swedish Publishers Association) and Stockholm University Library, 2001; Keynoter NeXT 1.0  (New Extensions of Technology). Conference, Karlstadt, Sweden, 2000; Keynoter, Learning On-Line 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University Virginia Tech, October 2000; Keynoter "Pen, Printing Press, Hypertext: Revolutions in Classroom Technology," Huntington, College, 2000; Keynoter Digital Arts Conference, Georgia Tech & Bergen University, October 1999;  Millercom Distinguished lecturer, Center for Advanced Study. University of Illinois, "Cyberarts: A new Aesthetic?" series, 1999; Keynoter, Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature Conference, Brown University, 1999; Featured speaker, Arts and Literature in e-Publishing Conference," University IULM, Milan and University of Pavia, Italy, October, 1999; Featured speaker, Digital Media in Computer Science Teaching at University Level, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, January, 2000; Keynoter, Gorgias Rhetoric Conference University of Texas at Dallas, February, 2000; Keynoter, Softmoderne4, Festival of Network Literature, Prague, 1998; Keynoter, Learning On-Line '98: Building the Virtual University Virginia Tech, June 1998; Keynoter, OCTET Summer Workshop: Teaching with technology in the humanities, Oberlin College, June 1998; Keynoter, Softmoderne3, Festival of Network Literature, Berlin, 1997;Keynoter, 13th Annual Computers and Writing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii 1997; Keynoter; "Unspeakable Practices Festival, Brown University Creative Writing Program, October , 1996; Keynoter, University of California at Irvine Extension 3rd Annual Summer Writers' Conference, 1996; Plenary speaker, Mid-Atlantic Computers and Writing (MAACAW) Conference, Washington, DC, 1996;  Joint Association of College and Research Libraries/Library Information Technology Association presidents program, "The Life of the Mind in the Digital Age, Chicago June 1995; University of Michigan School of Information and Library Science Dean's Lecture Series, January 1995; Rank Xerox Research Center (Grenoble) and Centro di Studi Semiotici e Cognitivi (Bologna) "The Future of the Book" Conference, San Merino  July 28-30, 1994; "Beyond Gutenberg: Hypertext and the Future of the Humanities," First Yale Hypertext Conference, May 1994   "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" poetry series SUNY/Buffalo, 1992; Computers and the Human Conversation Conference, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, 1991; Keynoter; "Literature and Technology: Third Columbia University Graduate Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literature," 1994 ; Keynoter, Mid-Atlantic Computers and Writing (MAACAW) organizational meeting, Washington, DC, 1993; Keynoter, 6th Annual Computers and Writing Conference, Austin Texas 1990; Keynoter, Language: Future Tense Conference, Tennessee Council of the Humanities, Memphis 1990.

 

Other talks and readings include Cornell, Syracuse, Carnegie Mellon, Hartford,  Illinois, Michigan, Maricopa, Michigan State, North Carolina, Northwestern, Purdue, Brown, Washington, Drake, Vassar, Brooklyn College, George Mason, Columbia, SUNY Albany, Idaho, Yale,  MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Case-Western, Virginia Tech, Iowa, Alabama, Calarts, etc. 

 

Presentations, panels, and papers: One of three focus papers (with Howard S. Becker and Pierre-Michel Menger) for "The Work Itself" conference sponsored by The Social Sciences Research Council, September 2004; "Commonly Valued Unknowing: toward a renewed disciplinarity" at the conference "Transforming Disciplines: the Humanities and Computer Science." sponsored by The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rice University, and Princeton University at The National Academies, Washington DC, January, 2003; Participant observer, Kulturwissenschaftlichen Seminar, Humboldt University, Berlin:  2002; Guggenheim Museum, featured panelist, "The Brave New Word," June, 2001: Festival International d'Arts Multimédia Urbains, Belfort, France, 2000; ACH Invited Panelist, MLA 2000, Washington, D.C.; AAHE/MLA Invited Panelist, "Innovations in Humanities Education," MLA 1999, Chicago; The Electronic Text Seminar, Department of English and Center for the Book, University of Iowa, 1998; "Transformations of the Book ", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October, 1997; German Literature Department Lecture, University of Hamburg, (Germany), 1997; Featured Presenter, Newport Beach Public Library "Manuscripts" lecture series July, 1996; Featured Presenter, "King Ludd and the Resistance to Technology Virtual Sessions", co-sponsored University of Florida and University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; Featured Presenter, University of Missouri Institute for Instructional Technology On-line Symposia, University of Missouri; "The Networked Mind," Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College 2000 Conference "Communities of Scholars," 1993; ACM European Conference on Hypertext Course: Teaching and Learning with Hypertext. Milan, 1992; Hypertext '87, '89, '91 and '96 meetings (ACM); MLA 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000; CCCC 1990, 91, 92, 93, 95;"real-time hypertext" featured session Computers and Writing 1992, Michigan College English Association, Science, Technology and Society Conference, Bowdoin College Teaching with Hypertext conference, University of Michigan Community College Consortium, etc.

 

Review Panelist, DAC 2000 Program Committee Member, University of Bergen, Norway; SIGGRAPH 2000, Multimedia Arts panel reviewer;  NEH Focus Grants Panel September  1996, 1998; Reviewer, ACM Hypertext '96 program committee; Annenberg/CPB Project grants, 1988; EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Higher Education Software Awards, 1989.

 

Technology and the ARTS

 

Lecture/demo/interactive fiction workshop, for "Approaching Cyberculture: Humanists as Actors in the Development of Technology", graduate summer school, Bleikinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden,  May 17 -25, 2003.

Co-author, software design and user interface for Storyspace®, hypertext writing environment, (with Jay David Bolter and John B. Smith). Published by Eastgate Systems, Cambridge, MA since 1987.

Co-trainer (with Carolyn Guyer) Danish National Film School Interactive Fiction workshop for scriptwriters, animators, and directors, Copenhagen, 1998.

Co-trainer (with Jay David Bolter) European Union SAGAs Writing Interactive Fiction workshop for filmmakers, Munich 1997-1999.

Guest lecturer on hypermedia and interactive video, School of Visual Arts, New York City, 1995-1999.

Board of Literary Advisors, Electronic Literature Organization, 2000-2001.

Advisory board "James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia," Michael Groden, ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997-present.

Advisory board and panel chair for "The Culture of Interactivity," sponsored by Visual Arts Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Goethe House, January 1998.

External Evaluator University of Baltimore Proposed Doctor of Science program in Multimedia Design September 1996.

Consultant and working group member, Interactive Fiction Retreat sponsored by Sundance Film Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation, Sundance, Utah, 1995.

Panelist  National Endowment of the Arts, Art21: Arts in the 21st Century conference, "State of the Art Arts" April 1994;

Lecturer, Interactive film and narrative, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) NYC , Technology in the 90's Series, 1993.

Keynoter, readings, and panelist, Brown University "Unspeakable Practices II" Festival of avant garde writing 1993 and 1996. Visiting Writer 1993.

TINAC Interactive artists' collective Founding member 1988-present.

Interactive video research/consultant Markle Foundation, Mary C. Milton project director, 1985-87.

 

Technology, Information policy and Learning

 

Research Team Member, InterPARES Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems), School of Information Science and Policy, University Albany, State University of New York and Department of Information Studies at UCLA. 2000-2003.

Advisory Board member American Arts and Letters Network, sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information, and American Council of Learned Societies, 1995-1999.

Advisory Board Rice University Libraries 1997-present.

Advisory Board, New Deal Network, Columbia Teachers College, world wide web project, 1997-2001.

Participant and keynoter, Computing and Humanities Roundtable, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, March 1997.

Member, Selection Panel, NEH/MCI EdSITEments world wide web project, 1997-8

Contributor/respondent, "Learning and Teaching" section of the Research Agenda for a Networked Cultural Heritage, Getty Art History Information Program, 1995-96.

Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Teaching in Computer Classrooms, NEH sponsored Faculty Workshop Bucks County Community College, May, 1996.

Working Group on Electronic Resources: Humanities and Arts on the Information Highway National Initiative, Getty Art History Information Program, Coalition for Networked Information, American Council of Learned Societies, 1994.

Founding Board Member Alliance for Computers and Writing, national organization, 1992-95.

Consultant to Hypertext Benchbook Project. Michigan Supreme Court Judicial Institute, Spring 1992.

Project Director, Apple and League for Innovation in Community Colleges ACCA hypermedia classroom charter project, 1990-91.

Interdisciplinary research in developing computer learning tools, Coordinator, Center for Narrative and Technology, Jackson Community College, 1985 to 1991

 

Professional Experience/ Employment History

 

Professor, English Department and Media Studies , Director of the Center for Electronic Learning and Teaching (1995-2002), Co-director Media Studies Development Project (1999-2000), Faculty Co-Director of the Media Cloisters, Vassar College..

Associate Professor, Language and Literature Department (Chair 1975-77); and Coordinator, Center for Narrative and Technology, Jackson Community College, Jackson, Michigan. 1975-1995.

 

Professional Experience/ Employment History (cont.)

 

Performer Associate, Center for New Performing Arts, Iowa City 1972-73.

Associate Editor, University of Iowa News Service, 1973.

Director of Program Development, Better Business Bureau (Buffalo), 1971-72.

Administrative Assistant, Institute for Developmental Studies, New York University; also Deafness Research Center, same institution, 1968-70. Staff writer, office manager.

Other work experience includes consulting, community organizer (NYC), carpentry, actor, director, Little League coach, and a lifetime's experience during one day as a taxi driver.

 

 

Education

M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers Workshop (Fiction) 1974.

B.A., Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, English and Philosophy, 1972.