Dennis G. Jerz

Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism at Seton Hill University, in southwestern Pennsylvania. Jerz's Literacy Weblog has been online since 1999.

Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day.

Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day.

1 day ago

The daughter opens another show. This weekend only.

The daughter opens another show. This weekend only.

2 days ago

How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper.

How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham's "Disagreement Hierarchy" to organize a college term paper.

2 days ago

A.I. ‘Completes’ Keith Haring’s Intentionally Unfinished Painting

After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, "Unfinished Painting" (1989), which is mostly a blank…

2 days ago

Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene from “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”

Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene from “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”…

2 days ago

“The Cowherd Who Became a Poet,” by James Baldwin. (Read by Dennis Jerz)

Inspiration can come to those with the humblest heart. Caedmon the Cowherd believed he had no talent for singing, but…

3 days ago

Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.”

Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.”

5 days ago

Journalist flexes in story about Trump Media accountant who has spelled his own name 14 different ways in official documents

Gotta love how this reporter worked the spelling variations into the story. Meet Ben F orgers (we wish we were…

5 days ago

Last weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense of scale in a 3D simulation. For the past few days I’ve been texturing. #blender

Last weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense of scale in a 3D…

5 days ago

NASA reconnects with Voyager 1 (after months of confusion)

  NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months…

5 days ago

Collegewide game encourages small interactions around campus

I confess I often check my messages and make quick calls while walking between appointments. My school has a lot…

1 week ago

Surprise sidewalk encounter with my man Hopkins outside the Admin shuttle stop this morning.

Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins [to a young child] Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the…

1 week ago

Shakespeare-themed Math Puzzles

I didn't know I had a Shakespeare-themed-match itch to scratch. 1. Hours and hours How many hours are there in…

2 weeks ago

This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?

Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability…

2 weeks ago

Bless thee, Carolyn, bless thee! Thou art translated — into a 22 year-old woman.

I remember when we got home from SHU's "The Tempest" you immediately started making a sock puppet theater. At one…

3 weeks ago

Eclipse!

3 weeks ago