This website was created in May 2001 by participants in the Narrative Theory course at the University of Idaho taught by Dr. Richard Fehrenbacher. The course explored different forms of narrative and theories that applied to those forms. Dr. Fehrenbacher was one of the 2000-2001 Humanities Fellows who sponsored The Tools Symposium: Technology and the Making of Humanity, held at UI in May 2001. Taking its cue from the theme of the symposium, this course offered students an opportunity to examine narratives outside the realm of traditional literature.

Students from the course collaborated to create the Narratech: Storytelling in the Digital Age website. Included within this site are essays, interviews, overviews, summaries, and lists of links regarding Narrative Theory, Comics, Interactive Games, and Hypertext. Each of these areas were touched on in the course, and students identified these as most interesting and representative of narrative in new media. It is by no means a complete survey, but these pages are a substantial contribution to scholarly material available on the World Wide Web.