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My research interests include technology and the humanities; electronic
text and cyberculture (including usability and weblogs); technical and
academic writing; and dramatic literature.
Publications
Scholarly Monograph
Technology
in American Drama, 1920-1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine
Technology shapes and defines the values interior to the human
soul, individually and collectively (the civitas) in addition
to producing the external, physical environment in which people live
(the urbs). Drawing
on the experiments of European Expressionism, especially under-acknowledged
German models in drama and film, American dramatists found new techniques
for developing character and theme, as well as innovative staging
techniques. Most important,
however, the three decades of drama examined in this study illustrate
three progressive stages in the human response to the machine. (Greenwood
Press, March 2003.)
Scholarly Publications
- "Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's
Original 'Adventure' in Code and in Kentucky" Digital Humanities
Quarterly 1.1 (2007). <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html>
- Jerz, Dennis G. and David Thomas. "Cave Gave Game: The Subterranean
as Game." (2005). Accepted for Dobrin, S., Taylor, L. and Martin,
C. (eds), Playing with Mother Nature: Video Games, Space, and
Ecology. [Book project canceled in 2007.]
- "The Bane of the President's Existence." Lore: An
E-Journal for Teachers of Writing (Sp 2005) <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore/digressions/content.htm?dis06>
- "(Meme)X Marks the Spot: Theorizing Metablogging in terms of
Dawkins's Meme and Reddy's Conduit." BlogTalks: First European
Conference on Weblogs. [Proceedings.] Vienna: Zentrum fur Wissenschaftliche
Forschung und Dienstleistung. 67-82. (2003) [Full text: <http://blogtalk.net/Main/BlogTalks#toc8>]
- "On the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs, and the
Google Galaxy" Dichtung Digital. 2003 <http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2003/1-jerz.htm>
- "Introduction", Text Technology special issue
on interactive fiction (2002); the (print) journal also contains update
1.2 of the "Bibliography of Interactive Fiction" (see below)
(Nov. 2002)
- "The Experimental Seduction of
Mechanistic Modernism in Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo and the Federal
Theatre Project's Altars of Steel" Interdisciplinary
Science Reviews 27.3 184-192 (2002) <http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/ESMM/index.html>
- "Bibliography
of Interactive Fiction Scholarship (Including Fan-produced Criticism
and Theory)" Text Technology (2001) [published online
in advance of a printed issue appearing in 2002]
- Christopher Douglas, Dennis G. Jerz, and Ian Lancashire. "Adapting
Web Electronic Libraries to English Studies," Surfaces
(1999, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal). <http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol8/lancashire.pdf>
- "Towards a Pro-active Technical Writing Curriculum," Canadian
Society for Mechanical Engineering Forum 1998 (May 1998).
- "PSim 2.0: A Computer Simulation of Wagon Motion in the York Corpus
Christi Pageant," (Re)Soundings: A World Wide Web Publication
(June 1997). [The 1997 version has been archived by the journal editors;
I continue to maintain a current version
of PSim resources.]
Editing
- The
Inform Beginner's Guide (April 2002, IF Library)
The Beginner's Guide (IBG) aims to provide a basic grounding in the
text-adventure programming language Inform. A follow-as-you-go tutorial,
the IBG creates three small games of increasing depth. No previous
experience of computer programming or interactive fiction design is
assumed. The book concludes with helpful summaries and reference tables
(by Roger Firth and Sonja Kesserich).
- Interactive Fiction Theory
(with editor-in-chief Emily Short; forthcoming from the IF Library)
This ambitious project, already well-advanced, is to publish the first
book dedicated to theories of interactive fiction: how it functions
as a literary genre, what possibilities it offers, how it has been
used to date; it features papers by many of the world's leading interactive
fiction designers and critics.
Reviews
Selected items, sorted by category
Technical Writing
Electronic Text
Drama and Theater
Dennis G. Jerz
09 May 2002 -- first posted
20 Feb 2007 -- last modified
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