Education
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 Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1986. He taught at Yale from 1984–1990, 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.
As a former Professor of Information Arts and Technologies, he formerly taught in the Bachelor of Science in Simulation and Digital Entertainment. He also was involved in the Master"s and Doctoral programs.
Career
He is author of the hypertext fiction works Victory Garden (1992), which was on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review in 1993, Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others Moulthrop is currently a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Moulthrop began experimenting with hypertext theory in the 1980s, and has since authored several articles as well as written many hypertext fiction works.
He served as co-editor for Postmodern Culture and is currently listed as part of their editorial collective.
He is partnered with Nancy Kaplan, Michael Joyce, and John McDaid in TINAC (Textuality, Intertextuality, Narrative, and Conscioussness). In 1987, Moulthrop created forking paths for an undergraduate writing class as a demonstration of hypertext, appropriating Borges" "Garden of Forking Paths".
This article acknowledges the possibility of having one source of data link to a group of data, which links to other group of data, and so forth until the viewer decides to exit the pool of information. The work is now available through The New Media Reader cd-rom.
Currently, Moulthrop is working on Creatures and Creators, a hypermedia cross-edition of Mary Shelley"s Frankenstein and James Whale"s 1931 film of the same title, and Chaos, a hypermedia fiction.
Membership
He also became a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization in 1999.
