Hieroglyphs to HTML: The History of Writing

Athena Kirk & Stephen Sansom

College of Arts and Sciences

Athena Kirk, assistant professor, and Stephen Sansom, Active Learning Initiative postdoctoral associate, both in in the Department of Classics, discuss their course: Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing. The course is an introduction to the history and theory of writing systems from cuneiform to the alphabet, historical and new writing media, and the complex relationship of writing technologies to human language and culture.