Steven Joyce is the recipient of several Fulbright and DAAD awards to Austria and Germany as well as several teaching awards at The Ohio State University.  His research combines and reflects his interests in both German and Comparative Studies. Currently, Dr. Joyce is researching Berlin author Judith Hermann and is planning to write a monograph on her works in the near future. He has also written three books of poetry, The Apostate Djin (2013), A Sea of Other (2018), A Small Pad of Paper (2020), and a book of essays entitled The Winds of Ilion, (2011) which received an Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award.  In addition to the Hermann monograph, Dr. Joyce is working on another book of essays entitled The Prophet of Patmos.  Dr. Joyce also directs the yearly May session Education abroad program in Corfu, Greece