Curriculum Vitae: Michael Joyce
Box 360 Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
12604-0360
Office: (845) 437-5941 Fax: (845) 437-7187 mijoyce atsign vassar dot edu
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.