James Benson Wirth (he/him/his)

Alumni

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Contact Information

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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

Spring 2025

ENGL 182 I: Composition: Multimodal

Winter 2025

ENGL 182 F: Composition: Multimodal

Autumn 2024

ENGL 298 A: Intermediate Writing in the Social Sciences

Spring 2024

ENGL 182 G: Composition: Multimodal

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

Summer 2022

ENGL 131 C: Composition: Exposition

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

ENGL 243 A: Reading Poetry

Affiliations

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