Stuart Moulthrop

Stuart Moulthrop

Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. He is author of the hypertext fiction works "Victory Garden" (1992), "Reagan Library (hypertext)" (1999), and "Hegirascope" (1995), amongst many others, as well as currently Professor of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore.

Background

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957, he became an English major at George Washington University after reading "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon in 1975. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986. He taught at Yale from 1984-1989, and then at the University of Texas at Austin and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1994 he moved back to Baltimore to teach at the University of Baltimore.

Work in hypertext

He began experimenting with hypertext theory in the 1980s, and has since authored several articles as well as written many hypertext fiction works. He has had an article published in "Wired magazine", his hypertext "Victory Garden" was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review from a review by Robert Coover, and "Hegirascope" won the Eastgate Systems HYSTRUCT Award. He served as co-editor for "Postmodern Culture magazine" and is currently listed as part of their editorial collective. He is partnered with Nancy Kaplan, Michael Joyce, John McDaid in TINAC (Textuality, Intertextuality, Narrative, and Conscioussness.)

ee also

*hyperfiction

Articles

*" [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.591/moulthro.591 You Say You Want a Revolution?, 1991] "

Hypertext works

* [http://www.eastgate.com/VG/VGStart.html Victory Garden] (excerpt)
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/hgs/ Hegirascope]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/rl/ Reagan Library]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/dreamtime.html Dreamtime]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/pax/ Pax, an Instrument]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/cotv/ The Color of Television]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/inwyt/ It's Not What You Think]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/wm/ Watching the Detectives]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/hyperbola.html Hyperbola]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/forkingpaths.html Forking Paths]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/ht96_report/ht96tr_cover.html Hypertext '96 Trip Report]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/hoptext/ Shadow of an Informand]

External links

* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/ Stuart Moulthrop Home]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/sam_bio.html University of Baltimore Bio]
* [http://www.eastgate.com/people/Moulthrop.html Eastgate Bio]
* [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/ Postmodern Culture magazine]
* [http://elab.eserver.org/hfl0183.html Electronic Labyrinth Bio]
* [http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/sam_home.html Website of Stuart Moulthrop]
* [http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/smoult.html Stuart Moulthrop: An Annotated Bibliography]
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/moulthrop/ Iowa Review Web Bio]
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/moulthrop/interview.html Interview with Stuart Moulthrop]


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