Lecturer in Creative Writing

About the Role
The Department of English in the School of English and Drama in Queen Mary’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to appoint a part-time (0.5 FTE) Lecturer in Creative Writing (Teaching and Scholarship). This 12-month fixed-term Lectureship is to provide cover for parental leave, and to contribute to our general teaching provision where appropriate. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to the development and delivery of teaching in the Creative Writing area. Modules may include Introduction to Creative Writing (Level 4), Creative Writing Prose: Fiction and Nonfiction (Level 5), Creative Writing Prose Fiction (Level 6) and Collaborative Practices (Level 7).

About You
The successful applicant will hold a PhD in Creative Writing, English or a related field. Alternatively, you may have equivalent publication record or professional experience. Experience in teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels is an essential requirement, as is an ability to contribute to a range of Creative Writing modules. Applicants who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic or Global Majority are strongly encouraged to apply.

About the Department
The Department of English at Queen Mary University of London is one of the country’s leading centres for innovation in the study of English, with a large and highly diverse student community and an international reputation for high-quality research and excellence in teaching.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Professor Tamara Atkin, Head of English: sed-headofenglish@qmul.ac.uk.

Details about the School of English and Drama can be found at www.sed.qmul.ac.uk.

Details about the English Department can be found at www.english.qmul.ac.uk.

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