Rate My Professor James Wurtz

Wurtz teaches a range of courses including Literary Analysis, Literature & Ideas, Literary Theory & Criticism, comics and graphic novels, Irish literature, modernism, and British literature. His research specializations include 19th- and 20th-century Irish Studies, modernism, memory, violence in literature, and graphic narratives. Key publications feature the article “Scarce More a Corpse: Famine Memory and Representations of the Gothic in Ulysses” in the Journal of Modern Literature (2005) and “Representing the Great War: Violence, Memory, and Comic Form” (2009). He has contributed to scholarly works such as Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Structures and Identities. Wurtz has delivered public lectures, including the Landini Series talk “Batman’s Dark Night of the Soul: Space and the Spatial in Arkham Asylum” in 2010, and presented at conferences on topics like trauma and melancholy in Edward Thomas’s “Rain” and mythic elements in Promethea. He serves as faculty advisor for Arion, the student creative writing magazine, completed the Master Teacher certification through the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, and participated in the Arts Endowment Committee. His commitment to teaching emphasizes student growth, wide reading, and personal engagement with faculty.