Helping students find my office (St. Joseph 403)

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It’s such a privilege to introduce these young people to Shakespeare’s body of work.

After starting my 200-level “Shakespeare in Context” students on a few sonnets, I assigned Twelfth Night (most had never read a Shakespeare comedy before) and Othello (they loved Iago), and then asked them to sample four different plays — The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Jonson’s…

The Cosmic Brownie fairy has visited my office. Is “brownie fairy” redundant? Thank you anyway.

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Students tend to zone out during my lectures on proofreading. I time it so I can say “class dismissed“ as soon as I show that last headline.

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Henry Bemis waited his whole life to finally read a book. Listen to Lynn Venable’s story, “Time Enough at Last” to learn what happens. Read by Dennis Jerz.

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The chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks great in his leather elbow-patch jacket and pantaloons tucked into high boots with spats. #steampunk #blender3d #neovictorian #unity3d #aesthetics #design

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Look what mysteriously appeared outside my office door!

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ChoiceScript tutorial for making casual, phone-friendly, stats-driven storygames. Choice of the Rhetor.

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Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu Logo

In September, 2003, I was blogging about the emerging fad of internet plagiarism, ethnically diverse anthropomorphic recyclables, EverQuest, and VeggieTales

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“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.

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T-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signed by 20 years of editors)

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