George Landow

George Landow is an English and Art History Professor at Brown University. Professor Landow is recognized as a leading theorist of hypertext application and design. He has written and lectured widely on electronic literacy. His 1992 book, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory and Technology, which he revised in 1997, discusses electronic writing systems.

"The computer rewrites the history of writing by sending us back to reconsider nearly every aspect of the earlier technologies." (Bolter 1991:46)