jwirtz@hunter.cuny.edu
949 West
212-772-4728

Jason Wirtz, Ph.D., Michigan State University, joins the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and the English Department as Assistant Professor in English Education and Rhetoric and Composition.  After teaching high school English in California, Dr. Wirtz taught writing and English Education courses at Western Michigan University and Michigan State University. 

Teaching

Dr. Wirtz teaches courses and supervises student teachers in the adolescent English education program.  He also teaches composition and rhetoric courses in the English Department.

Research

A practicing poet and fiction writer, Dr. Wirtz’s research focuses on the nature of writerly invention—the ways in which writers generate ideas through writing—across the fields of English Education, Rhetoric and Composition, and Creative Writing.