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James Dawes

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

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The Novel of Human Rights by James Dawes  Evil Men by James DawesThat the World May Know by James Dawes

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 Evil Men, winner of the International Human Rights Book Award, and That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity, 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 Chronicle of Higher Education, and CNN.com. He was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University and his M. Phil. from Cambridge University.

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Presentations

Digital Student Projects

Areas of Study

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

 Fall 2025 Courses 

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

Selected Works in Macalester’s Digital Commons