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James Benson Wirth (he/him/his)

Technologist

Acting Assistant Professor

Contact Information

jbwirth@uw.edu

Personal Website

PDL B-410

Office Hours: 

W 12:30 - 2:30 PM

Fields of Interest

20th Century21st CenturyCreative WritingCritical TheoryExpository WritingGenderLiterary CriticismOnline LearningPopular CultureWriting 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

Spring 2024

• ENGL 182 G: Composition: Multimodal

Winter 2024

• ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric In Everyday Life
• ENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository Writing

Autumn 2023

• ENGL 182 F: Composition: Multimodal
• ENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing

Spring 2023

• ENGL 288 E: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing
• ENGL 297 A: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Humanities

Winter 2023

• ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing
• ENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing

Autumn 2022

• ENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing
• ENGL 288 G: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing

Spring 2022

• ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric in Everyday Life
• ENGL 250 A: American Literature

Winter 2022

• ENGL 243 A: Reading Poetry

Autumn 2021

• ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms

Summer 2021 Full-term

• ENGL 131 B: Composition: Exposition

Spring 2021

• ENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing

Winter 2021

• ENGL 259 A: Literature and Social Difference

Spring 2020

• ENGL 111 X: Composition: Literature

Winter 2020

• ENGL 259 A: Literature and Social Difference
• ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing

Autumn 2019

• ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms
• ENGL 200 E: Reading Literary Forms

Spring 2019

• ENGL 131 G4: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2019

• ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing

Winter 2017

• ENGL 111 U: Composition: Literature

Summer 2016 Full-term

• ENGL 131 E: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2016

• ENGL 111 W: Composition: Literature

Autumn 2015

• ENGL 111 G: Composition: Literature
• ENGL 111 U: Composition: Literature

Spring 2015

• ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing

Winter 2015

• ENGL 200 E: Reading Literary Forms: Surveillance in Contemporary American Politics and Literature

Autumn 2014

• ENGL 242 F: Reading Prose Fiction: 21st Century American Fiction and the Cultural Turn

Spring 2014

• ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing

Winter 2014

• ENGL 111 O: Composition: Literature

Autumn 2013

• ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing

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