STUART MOULTHROP, an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction.

Stuart Moulthrop is a teacher, writer, and hypertext designer who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was born in that city in 1957 and used to work as a crab streamer and part-time bureaucrat, he 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.

Stuart Moulthrop is the author of the hyperbooks Dreamtime, The Garden of Forking Paths and Victory Garden. He has taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Together with Nancy Kaplan, Michael Joyce and John McDaid, Moulthrop co-founded the electronic arts collective TINAC, (Textuality, Intertextuality, Narrative And Consciousness or This Is Not A Conference), "a shadowy organization dedicated to undermining print consciousness in all its guises." Moulthrop's works in progress include Creatures and Creators, a hypermedia cross-edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and James Whale's 1931 film, and Chaos, a hypermedia fiction.

As well as being one of the foremost authors of hypertext fiction, Moulthrop has emerged as one of its most important theoreticians. He has published numerous and diverse essays concerning hypertext.

From: University of Baltimore (http://rat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/sam-bio.html).

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