Rate My Professor James Wurtz

James F. Wurtz serves as Associate Professor of English and Chairperson of the Department of English at Indiana State University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in Irish Studies with a focus in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2005, following a master’s degree from the same university in 2003, and a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Creative Writing from John Carroll University. His doctoral dissertation, titled "A Very Strange Agony: Modernism, Memory and Irish Gothic Fiction," reflects early scholarly interests in Irish literature and Gothic elements. Wurtz has contributed to academic discourse through edited volumes and journal articles on graphic narratives and comics. In 2012, he co-edited "Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative and Sequential Art: Essays on Forms, Series, and Genres" with Jake M. Jakaitis, published by McFarland, and authored the introduction to the collection. That same year, his chapter appeared in the volume. He published "‘Out there in the Asylum’: Physical, Mental, and Structural Space in Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth" in Amerikastudien / American Studies (volume 56, issue 4). In 2016, he edited the entry on Grant Morrison for Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume 393.