WRITING

• Publications: Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Web Development
• Teaching

Publications

Fiction

• "Holier Than Thou" (hypertext fiction), 1996: http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/fiction/htt/index.html
  
  
• "Mass" (short story), Crescent Review 9, no. 2 (Fall 1991): 36-51. Reprinted online: http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/fiction/mass/index.html. For reviews of "Mass," see Recognition.

Non-fiction

• "As We May Write: Electronic Literature Comes to Duke," Duke University Libraries 8, no. 3, (Spring, 1995): 2-11. Hypertext version: http://www.lib.duke.edu/magazine/spring_95/.
  
  
• "Barcoding and Books," Duke University Libraries 1, no. 2 (Winter 1988): 19.
  
  
• "Ehle Collection," Duke University Libraries 2, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 21.
  
  
• "Staff Reactions to Going Online," Duke University Libraries 1, no. 1 (Fall 1987): 8-9.
  
  
• "Tracing the Growth of a New Literature," Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine 3, no. 12, December 1, 1996: http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/dec/toc.html
  
  
• "Writing Lives: Technology, Creativity, and Hypertext Fiction" (masters thesis, Duke University, 1996): http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/fiction/htt/mals.html

Web Development

Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction

Site devoted to hypertext fiction, first mounted on the Web on March 1, 1995. Among its current features are:

• Approximately 230 citations to electronic fiction, its print precursors, and criticism
• Approximately 100 annotated citations for selected works
• Individual bibliographies of selected authors
• Current announcements about the field and links to related sites of interest

For reviews and other publicity regarding Hyperizons, see Recognition.

Bibliographic Searching Team Homepage

Site for use of staff in Bibliographic Searching at Perkins Library, Duke University, first mounted on the Web in August, 1994 and maintained by me until I moved to the Special Collections Library in November, 1994. Among its initial features were:

• Interlinked internal documentation
• HTML versions of approval plan profiles with various vendors
• Links to Duke online catalog, acquisitions system, and other databases

For citations of this home page, see Recognition.

Teaching

Fiction Writing, Introductory and Intermediate levels, Duke University Continuing Education Short Course Program, 1989-91.

Designed and taught quarterly classes in short story writing. Wrote handouts, led discussions, devised assignments, and gave detailed written commentary on manuscripts.