Technologist Acting Assistant Professor Contact Information jbwirth@uw.edu PDL A-303 Office Hours T/Th 1-2 PM Personal Website Fields of Interest 20th Century 21st Century Creative Writing Critical Theory Expository Writing Gender Literary Criticism Online Learning Popular Culture Writing Pedagogy Biography Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2019 M.F.A., Creative Writing in Prose, University of Washington, 2011 Research Selected Research Wirth, James Benson. Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Tom Foster Courses Taught Autumn 2024ENGL 298 A: Intermediate Writing in the Social SciencesSpring 2024ENGL 182 G: Composition: MultimodalWinter 2024ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric in Everyday LifeENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository WritingAutumn 2023ENGL 182 F: Composition: MultimodalENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingSpring 2023ENGL 288 E: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingENGL 297 A: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - HumanitiesWinter 2023ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository WritingENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingAutumn 2022ENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingENGL 288 G: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingSummer 2022ENGL 131 C: Composition: ExpositionSpring 2022ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric in Everyday LifeENGL 250 A: American LiteratureWinter 2022ENGL 243 A: Reading PoetryAutumn 2021ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary FormsSummer 2021ENGL 131 B: Composition: ExpositionSpring 2021ENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical WritingWinter 2021ENGL 259 A: Literature and Social DifferenceSpring 2020ENGL 111 X: Composition: LiteratureWinter 2020ENGL 259 A: Literature and Social DifferenceENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing Affiliations Home Department English Related News Related News Transitioning to Teaching Online in a Time of Crisis (September 2, 2020) Teacher Talk - Making Effective Use of Canvas Tools and Engaging Students (April 14, 2020)
