As technology continues its rapid advance, authors and artists across the globe have engineered creative and genre-breaking ways of mixing computers and electronic devices with traditional literary forms. This thesis provides an overview of electronic literature's history as an art form, an examination of major theorists and critics, an indepth analysis of selected digital works, the results of my experimental electronic literature course, and a look at how this new narrative mode is being explored. While the findings in this thesis can apply to any university, I focus specifically on how public, regional universities like the University of Louisiana at Monroe can integrate electronic literature into its classes and culture.