ENG 4815 - Spring 2026 - Howell

We will be exploring texts and textuality in part by creating a lot of texts ourselves. It useful and interesting to consider “textuality,” or characteristics we identify as important to our understanding that something is a text. By experiencing texts both intimately and at a distance, we hope to gain a fuller understanding of what a text can be. We will look at mediated communication very broadly, since the question posed by our course title seems to imply that we should be able to figure out what “not-a-text” is, too. This is primarily an experiential class, and trying to answer the question that is the title of our class is one of the main goals of our class activities.