Rosemary Joyce is an anthropologist and archaeologist who is currently engaged in archaeological fieldwork in the Ulua River Valley in northern Honduras, a country where she has worked since 1977. At UC Berkeley she teaches courses in archaeological method and theory, museum studies, the archaeology of Central America and the Maya, household archaeology, and (with Ruth Tringham and Meg Conkey) the Poetics of Place and Time, and participates in the Multimedia Authoring Center for Instruction in Anthropology (MACTIA). She is the former Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley, and former Assistant Director and Curator at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, where she taught anthropology from 1985 to 1994. Her publications center on the intersection of materiality and identity at multiple scales, from the individual body to the landscape, and include Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press, 2000), Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies (with Susan D. Gillespie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica (with David C. Grove, Dumbarton Oaks, 1999), Women in Prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica (with Cheryl Claassen, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery (University of Texas Press, 1991).
Carolyn Guyer is the author of Quibbling, a hypertext fiction published on disk by Eastgate in 1992. Her other hypertexts include the first published collaborative fiction, Izme Pass, with co-author Martha Petry, published by Writing on the Edge in 1991; and Lasting Image with co-author Michael Joyce, published on the web by Eastgate. She was the founder and coordinator of HiPitched Voices, a women's hypertext collective which was best known for helping to launch the Hypertext HotelMOO, located at Brown University. She also created the web project Mother Millennia that intends to link thousands of stories and works from all over the world on the subject of "mother." Guyer has also contributed to the theoretical work surrounding the use of hypertext. Samples of her essays and fiction are available at her personal website.
Long ago 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," and Der TAZ in Berlin has called 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. His shorter hyperfictions include WOE and Lucy's Sister and his most recent work Lasting Image (with Carolyn Guyer) published by Eastgate (2000). A linear novel, Going the Distance, is published on the web by Pilgrim Press. An earlier print novel, The War Outside Ireland, won the Great Lakes New Writers Award in 1983. His most recent collection of essays, Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000) was published by the University of Michigan Press which previously published his collection Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (1995). He is currently Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Electronic Learning and Teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
