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. The term electronic literature refers to works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. ... Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature found mostly online, characterized by non-linearity and reader interaction. ... WWII-era poster promoting victory gardens. ... The University of Baltimore, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is part of the University System of Maryland. ...

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 and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1994 he moved back to Baltimore to teach at the University of Baltimore. A panoramic view of the Baltimore skyline and inner harbor Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Nickname: Monumental City Charm City Mob Town B-more Map Political Statistics Founded 30 July 1729 Incorporated 1797... The George Washington University (GWU) is a private university in Washington, D.C., founded in 1821 as The Columbian College. ... Gravitys Rainbow book cover. ... Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. With over 16,000 students, Georgia Tech is one of four public research universities in the University System of Georgia. ...

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.) In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... WWII-era poster promoting victory gardens. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. ... Michael Joyce (b. ...

See also

• Jay David Bolter
• Robert Coover
• J.Yellowlees Douglas
• Electronic Literature Organization
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Shelley Jackson
• Michael Joyce
• George Landow
• Lev Manovich

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Articles

• You Say You Want a Revolution?, 1991

Hypertext works

• Victory Garden(excerpt)
• Hegirascope
• Reagan Library
• Dreamtime
• Pax, an Instrument
• The Color of Television
• It's Not What You Think
• Watching the Detectives
• Hyperbola
• Forking Paths
• Hypertext '96 Trip Report
• Shadow of an Informand

External links

• Stuart Moulthrop Home
• University of Baltimore Bio
• Eastgate Bio
• Postmodern Culture magazine
• Electronic Labyrinth Bio
• Website of Stuart Moulthrop
• Stuart Moulthrop: An Annotated Bibliography
• Iowa Review Web Bio
• Interview with Stuart Moulthrop