Greetings,

Wow, it looks like an impressive and lively bunch. Honored to be in
the company of many whose work I have seen, enjoyed, and/or learned
from!

I'm author of the hypertext novel _Figurski at Findhorn on Acid_
(Eastgate Systems, 2001), short fiction, some scholarship.

Textbooks include _Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and
Knowledge in the Electronic Age_ (McGraw-Hill, 1998), an anthology
for college writing students.

Taught writing at Stanford for 12 years with heavy use of
computer/network tools. As a Resident Fellow for a freshman dorm, got
interested in use of CMC by real-space communities and did a study of
that. As a side note, since this list so quickly engaged in a
metadiscussion thread ("what should the list be?" etc.),
metadiscussion was one of the phenomena I looked at for students
living together and using email discussion.

Interest now focused as practitioner/writer as opposed to theory and
research, but love to read what others think in both areas; will
probably be forced to mostly lurk due to time constraints of day job!

As a (slow but determined) writer, I like to explore the tension
between linearity and digression/ multilinearity (or as described in
Bolter and Gromala's 2003 _Windows and Mirrors_, the rhythm between
transparency and reflectivity). In that sense, I suspect I'm mostly
engaging a tradition -- albeit sometimes with different or new media
-- that dates at least from Cervantes and includes Sterne, Nabokov,
and many more.

Cheers,
Rich
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