This course will engage the braid of two kinds of writing. The first is done with, and in, language: the poem, the essay, the letter, the tale, trace or mark or character. The other, wordless, is photography—literally, “light-writing.” Half our seminar each week will investigate the crossover of literary writing and photography, as manifested in theoretical works and especially in practice. We will also examine several films in which writing and photography inform one another as themes or structures. The second half of each meeting will be a creative workshop in which students critique one another’s experiments in combining text with image. Several sessions will take place among the Georgia Museum of Art's photography collection, and in conjunction with photographer Oscar Palacio's spring residence on campus, a special unit of our semester will be dedicated to shooting and writing about public space.