Lecturer Emerita in Writing Joyce H. Seligman died June 7, 2020, at age 75.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Joyce graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and City University of New York. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Maine and taught writing at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Wisconsin before joining Bates in 1981 as the founding director of the Writing Workshop, now Writing at Bates. She retired in 2008 as lecturer emerita in writing.
In her time at Bates, Joyce and her team worked with more than 13,000 students. Along the way, she created a comprehensive program of undergraduate writing instruction and designed faculty development programs to improve the teaching of writing across the curriculum. Her legacy is seen in how Bates prioritizes writing as a curricular focus throughout a student’s career.