James Warren Boyd

James Warren Boyd's goals as an instructor for RHET 103 and 110/120 at USF are to guide students' growth as scholars, writers, and public speakers, as well as to facilitate their intellectual and personal growth by encouraging them to critically examine the world around them.

• University writing/public speaking pedagogy
• Creative writing: memoir
• Autoethnographic and queer performance

• College composition
• Communication studies
• Performance studies

• University of San Francisco, ETS Generative AI Certificate, 2025
• San Francisco State University, MA in Communication Studies, 2011
• San Francisco State University, MA in English, 2003
• Certificate in the Teaching of College Composition, 2001
• UCLA,  BA in History, 1991

• Adjunct Professor, USF
• Lecturer, SFSU
• Director English Tutoring Center, SFSU
• Director English Early Start/Directed Self Placement, SFSU
• Faculty, NKJO [Teacher Training College], Radom, Poland [Peace Corps]

• SFSU, Lecturer Emeritus, 2024

• USF Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award, 2017

• “Shirts and Skins,” cream city review, vol. 38.01
• “Funerals,” Hawaii Pacific Review,
• “Hippo Down,” Big Muddy, vol 18.1
• “Hammerheads,” Evening Street Review, vol 27
• “The Ecstasy of Sister Bernadette,” The Wrath Bearing Tree