STUART MOULTHROP

Brief Biography

Stuart Moulthrop is a teacher, writer, and hypertext designer who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was born in that city in 1957, was educated at George Washington University and Yale, where he received a PhD in English in 1986. He taught at Yale from 1984-1989, then at the University of Texas and the Georgia Institute of Technology before moving to the University of Baltimore in 1994.

He is the author of several articles on hypertext, contemporary fiction, and digital culture, including a short piece in Wired ("Very Like a Book," October, 1995), several technical papers presented at the ACM Hypertext conferences, and " Pushing Back," an article on the status of hypertext writing that appeared recently in Modern Fiction Studies.

Moulthrop gave the closing keynote address at the Hypertext '98 conference in Pittsburgh.

His hypertext fiction Victory Garden, was reviewed by Robert Coover on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. A later hypertext fiction, "Hegirascope," appeared in the on-line journal World3 in 1995. A revised version of "Hegirascope" was published by New River in 1997 and won the Eastgate Systems HYSTRUCT Award.

These days he divides his time between Postmodern Culture, where he has succeeded co-founder Eyal Amiran as co-editor, his teaching, and various on- and off-line publishing projects.

In the summer of 1998, Moulthrop is the Communication Studies International Fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. He is working on a book of essays and on judging the inaugural New York University Hypertext Prize.

 

Brief Biography: Stuart Moulthrop            25.October.2008

URL: http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/sam_bio.html

 

 

 

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