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 Spring 2025ENGL 182 I: Composition: Multimodal Winter 2025ENGL 182 F: Composition: Multimodal Autumn 2024ENGL 298 A: Intermediate Writing in the Social Sciences Spring 2024ENGL 182 G: Composition: Multimodal Winter 2024ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric in Everyday Life ENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2023ENGL 182 F: Composition: Multimodal ENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing Spring 2023ENGL 288 E: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing ENGL 297 A: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Humanities Winter 2023ENGL 281 B: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing Autumn 2022ENGL 288 D: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing ENGL 288 G: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing Summer 2022ENGL 131 C: Composition: Exposition Spring 2022ENGL 206 A: Rhetoric in Everyday Life ENGL 250 A: American Literature Winter 2022ENGL 243 A: Reading Poetry Autumn 2021ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms Summer 2021ENGL 131 B: Composition: Exposition Spring 2021ENGL 288 B: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing Winter 2021ENGL 259 A: Literature and Social Difference Affiliations Home Department English Related News Related News English Professors and Simpson Center Bring Vital AI Conversations to UW (May 19, 2025) 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)
