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Joyce is a prize-winning novelist as well as a teacher of writing. His hypertext novel,
His novel,
During 1992-93 he was a Pew Visiting Professor of Hypertext Media, Technology and Culture in the English department at Vassar College supported by a grant from the Pew Memorial Trust as part of an initiative to further use of computers in the humanities. During 1993 he was also a Writer-in-residence at the Brown University Creative Writing Program and at the University of San Francisco. From 1975-1995 he was on the faculty of Jackson (MI) Community College as an Associate Professor of Language and Literature and Coordinator of the Center for Narrative and Technology. From 1975-78, he chaired the Language and Literature department, and from 1989-91 he was Director for JCC's National Community College Alliance charter project sponsored by Apple Computer and the League for Innovation in Community Colleges.
His hyperfiction,
Joyce's educational background is in English and Fiction writing. Michael Joyce attended Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, earning B.A.'s in English and Philosophy in 1972. In 1974 he graduated from University of Iowa Writers Workshop (Fiction) earning his M.F.A. He also acted as a Teaching Writing Fellow at Iowa Writers Workshop during the year of 1973-74.
Michael Joyce draws some elements from his personal history to his work. His marriage to fellow hypertext author Martha Petry Joyce and the birth of their two sons, Eamon and Jeremiah, are sometimes referenced in his essays and novels. After the break up of his first marriage with Martha, his second marriage with Carolyn Guyer resulted in another creative relationship resulting in multiple projects co-authored by the couple.
Over 4800 files were recovered from approximately 370 3.5" floppy disks totaling over 211 Mb. The files are arranged into 6 series: I. Works, II. Academic Career, III. Correspondence, IV. Storyspace, V. Third-Party Works, and VI. Personal. Until copyright permissions are granted to the Harry Ransom Center (HRC), all materials in Series IV. Storyspace and Series V. Third-Party Works will be inaccessible. The remaining series with we be accessible by HRC staff and patrons on-site in the HRC Reading Room.
Series I. Works contains Michael Joyce's fiction and hypermedia files. Early drafts and published versions of his work, notes, film treatments, correspondence between co-authors and other related material document about half of Joyce's fiction and hypertext works. Published titles represented in this series include:
Series II. Academic Career is composed of lectures, presentations, CV's and biographies, learning objects, scholarly works, reading exercises, class exercises, grant proposals, faculty correspondence, fellowships applications and administrative materials. Three subseries make up Series II.: Subseries A. Scholarly Material, Subseries B. Teaching Material, and Subseries C. Administrative Material.
Letters pertaining to Joyce's career as an author and some personal letters compose Series III. Correspondence. Some files were created originally with electronic mail programs but were saved and are represented as Microsoft Word files. Within Series III. there is no internal arrangement. Instead, DSpace users may select appropriate fields of metadata by which to sort the files (i.e. by author or date.)
Most correspondence pertaining to Storyspace creation, development, dissemination, critique and discussion is arranged in Sereis IV. Storyspace. Four subseries make up Series IV: Subseries A. Code, Subseries B. Design, Subseries C. Criticism, and Subseries D. Riverrun Ltd. Michael Joyce was very involved with running Riverrunn Ltd., the company that designed a Storyspace reader. The code for the first version of Storyspace is included in Subseries A. These files will not be accessible until copyright permission are granted to the HRC.
Although inaccessible until copyright permissions are granted, Series V. Third-Party Works contains the work of authors other than Michael Joyce. These works represent the influences and context in which Joyce developed his ideas for hypertext fiction and hypertext in academia. Works by Carolyn Guyer, Stuart Multhrop, Jane Y. Douglas, William Gibson, Wes Chapman, Jay David Bolter, John McDaid, Jim Rosenberg, Robert Arellano, Deena Larson, William Dickey, Mark Amerika, Mark Kim Arnold, Shelley Jackson, David Kolb and others can be found in Series V.
Series VI. Contains materials relating to Joyce's personal life. Address books, neighborhood watch fliers, little line ups, and expense reports are included in Series VI.
Additional digital files and papers should be added to this collection in the future.
The Harry Ransom Center is in the process of obtaining Michael Joyce's files.
Open for research. Access to materials is restricted to staff and patrons of the Harry Ransom Center. Access will only be allowed on-site.
Files processed by Thomas Kiehne, Vivian Spoliansky and Catherine Stollar.
All files listed below can be accessed in the Harry Ransom Center Reading Room. Access is prohibited by any other means and from any location outside of the Harry Ransom Center.