We are a large and dynamic department with more than seventy academics from different countries around the world. Exeter is a UNESCO City of Literature and we are proud of the history of the Southwest’s literary culture and of our local archives that inform our research and our teaching. We welcome students from all backgrounds and thrive to make their experience at Exeter the best it can be.

The curriculum at Exeter covers all periods from the Middle Ages to the contemporary moment with the “literary text” conceived in the broadest possible terms. From the Book of Genesis to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, from little magazines to comics and graphic novels, our curriculum equips students with the critical vocabulary and/or creative skills to confidently work with a range of literary forms and genres. Alongside literature and creative writing modules, the Department is home to our Liberal Arts degree programme, which emphasises interdisciplinarity while enabling students to select a specialism (or Major). Our staff also teach on a number of workplace-facing undergraduate modules in Applied Humanities, Publishing and the Creative Industries, which are popular career destinations for many of our students. We run a dedicated M.A. in Publishing.

The Role

This position has become available to replace Professor Nicholas McDowell during his tenure of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. You will have responsibility for the design, development and production of teaching and learning material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will likely include some or all of the following: giving lectures, leading seminars, convening modules, setting and marking assignments, providing academic support through our personal tutoring system, supervising undergraduate and/or M.A. dissertations. The successful candidate may also teach on one or more of our Liberal Arts modules.

You will:

-Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist and core knowledge in the discipline, demonstrated by a PhD (or nearing completion) or equivalent in Renaissance / Early Modern English Literature to develop teaching programmes, and teach and support learning

-Use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students

-Participate in and develop external networks, for example, to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, obtain consultancy projects, or build relationships for future activities

-Will have evidence of excellent teaching identified by peer review and have made an impact at discipline programme level beyond their own teaching

-Be expected to work towards Fellow of the HEA status and to attend formal CPD relating to this 

Application Deadline: 15 June 2024

More details on the role are available here