Vassar College Department of English

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The New York Times called Michael Joyce's afternoon "the granddaddy of hypertext fictions," while The Toronto Globe and Mail said that it "is to the hypertext interactive novel what the Gutenberg bible is to publishing," andDer TAZ in Berlin termed him "Der Homer der Hypertexte." His hyperfiction, "On the Birthday of the Stranger" was featured as the inaugural work for the Evergreen Experimental Site of the online version of the Evergreen Review.  Two longer hyperfictions, Twilight, A Symphony, on CD ROM, and Twelve Blue, on the world wide web, were both published in 1996 by Eastgate.  Another web fiction, the collaborative work The Sonatas of Saint Francis, was published by Supertart.com in 2000. Joyce's shorter hyperfictions include WOE, Lucy's Sister, Reach and Lasting Image (with Carolyn Guyer) published by Eastgate as well. His novella Was: annales nomadique /A novel of internet was published by FC2, Fiction Collective2, in Spring 2007 and another print novel, Liam's Going, was published by McPherson and Company in September 2002 and reissued in paperback in 2008. His first print novel, The War Outside Ireland, won the Great Lakes New Writers Award in 1983. His collection of short fictions and prose pieces, Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions, with an afterword by Hélène Cixous, was published the State University of New York Press in Fall 2001. Two collections of essays, Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture  (2000) and Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (1995) were published by the University of Michigan Press.  His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including by nor/ (The New Ohio Review), The Iowa Review, New Letters, Parthenon West, Gastronomica, and New Review among others.  In recent years he has been collaborating in multimedia work with Venezuelan video artist Anita Pantin and Canadian composer Bruce Pennycook; and, most recently, in ongoing projects with LA visual artist Alexandra Grant including paintings, sculptures, and multimedia work exhibited in galleries, museums, and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (LA MOCA).  With sociologist and media scholar Bill Hoynes he was instrumental in founding Vassar's Media Studies program. From January to June, 2010, he will be on leave as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden.