ENG3803 - Fall 2025 - Guerrero

This course is an introduction to the history of the development of different text technologies across time and space. Humans across the globe and across history have used technologies to create, organize, circulate, and preserve ideas. FSU English’s interdisciplinary program surveys the variety of forms this effort has taken, including (but certainly not limited to): scrolls, graffiti, manuscript, print, illustration, phonograph, photograph, film, tattoos, and digital multimedia. In our class, we will explore the social, cultural, and material conditions of text technologies, and how they shaped— and continue to shape—how people use (or decide not to use) them across the globe. We will also practice how to be ethical historians who critically examine narratives and biases towards the cultures whose text technologies we study.