{"id":19594,"date":"2026-01-28T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19594"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:16:24","slug":"gavin-benke","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/gavin-benke\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Benke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Gavin Benke teaches writing through a focus on the history of capitalism. Much like his teaching, Dr. Benke\u2019s research examines how language and culture shapes business practices and institutions. Before arriving at BU, Dr. Benke held postdoctoral fellowships at Southern Methodist University\u2019s Clements Center for Southwest Studies and at the University of South Florida as a part of the Provost\u2019s Global Change in a Dynamic World initiative. In addition to publishing in journals such as\u00a0<\/span><em>American Studies<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Enterprise &amp; Society and Storytelling<\/em><span>, his book\u00a0<\/span><em>Risk and Ruin: Enron and Culture of American Capitalism<\/em><span>\u00a0will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in May, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19594\/revisions\/19596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}