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James Dawes

DeWitt Wallace Professor of English and Creative Writing
Narrative across the disciplines.

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James Dawes teaches narrative across the disciplines. His areas of research expertise include human rights, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of storytelling in fields ranging from creative writing to video game design. He is the author of several books, including , winner of the International Human Rights Book Award, and 聽Independent Publisher Book Award Finalist. He has written for or appeared as the feature guest on media outlets ranging from National Public Radio, the BBC, and Bulgarian National Radio to the Boston Globe, the聽Chronicle of Higher Education, and CNN.com. He was a聽Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He received his聽Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University and聽his M. Phil. from Cambridge University.

In the News


  • The Conversation (January 2024)

  • The Conversation (November 30, 2023)

  • Article 36, A discussion paper (June 2022)

  • Open Global Rights (January 12, 2022)

  • The Conversation, Reprinted by over two dozen other news outlets. (December 20, 2021)

    The Washington Post, Opinion section (December 16, 2021)

  • The Conversation (September 29, 2021)

  • Nature Human Behaviour (August 21, 2017)

  • openDemocracy (March. 22, 2017)

  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation RN (Apr. 9, 2015)

  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Sept. 5, 2014)
  • Can We Forgive War Criminals? – James Dawes
    TTBOOK interview – Wisconsin Public Radio (Sept. 13, 2013)

  • The Washington Post (Aug. 9, 2013)

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 1, 2013)

  • CBC Radio’s The Current (June 6, 2013)

  • The Brooklyn Rail (June 3, 2013)

  • Harvard University Press Blog (June 3, 2013)

  • Newstalk Ireland (May 31, 2013)

  • Times Higher Education (May 30, 2013)

  • CNN Opinion (May 15, 2013)
  • Any good from evil?
    WNYC Radio – The Brian Lehrer Show (May 13, 2013)

  • MinnPost (May 1, 2013)

  • Minnesota Public Radio (April 30, 2013)

  • This article about the book Evil Men appeared in the Boston Globe (April 28, 2013)

  • South China Morning Post (April 21, 2013)

Presentations

  • Write Well series video: Every Sentence is a Sandwich

Digital Student Projects

  • Unediting Dickinson

Areas of Study

  • American literature
  • Countercultures
  • Human rights
  • Literary and language theory
  • Violence and trauma
  • Literature and Philosophy
  • Artificial Intelligence

聽Fall 2025 Courses聽

  • ENGL 125-F1 Studies in Literature: Writing Against the Machine (FYC)
  • ENGL 150-03 Introduction to Creative Writing

Spring 2026 Courses

ENGL 137-01: Novel
ENGL 294-01: Emily Dickinson and Taylor Swift