"Senior Teaching Fellow in Writing"

NYU London invites applications for a Senior Teaching Fellow position in First Year Writing to begin in August 2026. The appointed faculty member will support students participating in the NYU Global Gateway Program in London. NYU London (NYUL) is the hiring employer. This is a one-year, non-tenure track appointment that is renewable, depending upon department need and satisfactory performance. Teaching commences in the Autumn term (Sept-Dec 2026).

Responsibilities

• Teach two undergraduate courses in first-year writing each semester (Fall and Spring)
• Engage in 1 on 1 and group activities supporting students’ writing in NYU London (Year-round)
• Assist with coordination of other writing courses and training of instructors
• There are no formal research expectations in this role, but selected candidates are expected to engage in the intellectual life at NYU London and Global Programs
• Advise independent research as needed for upper class students

Course Description

Writing is a foundational course that teaches students to become more critical and engaged readers and writers. Students develop their understanding of writing as a situated practice that varies across disciplines by writing a range of texts, each with its own genre expectations, audience, and conventions. Students will hone strategies to analyze evidence, accurately represent and cite others' ideas, and make clear the relationship between their own thinking and that of others. They will expand their awareness of their own distinct writing voices in relationship to their classroom community of writers and more broadly, a range of discourse communities, and practice an array of reading, research, critical thinking and writing strategies that are useful across a range of university courses in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

Teaching Information

Current program needs include individuals with experience teaching STEM-related writing. Instructors are encouraged to use a variety of pedagogical techniques within the course guidelines that will be shared with successful candidates. These typically include a combination of lecture-, discussion-, and workshop-based class sessions, as well as various student activities. Instructors are expected to teach in person unless there is a university or location specific change in academic delivery required by outside circumstances (i.e. transportation strike, public health emergency, or major building renovations).

Contract Information

Teaching fellow is contracted with NYUL, on a fixed term from 1 August to 31 May. Fellows would teach up to 5 courses or equivalent per academic year on a fixed salary basis, equivalent to 0.8 FTE, 4 days per week. NYUL reserves the first right for course scheduling as the primary (though not necessarily exclusive) employer.

Expectation of Hours

Courses are 4 credits each, corresponding to approximately 50 hours per semester. The semesters are 15 weeks long (14 weeks of teaching plus an exam week) and there are 2hrs 30 minutes of classroom instruction each week per course. In addition to the time required for instructor development, course preparation, classroom instruction, and marking and providing feedback to students, the instructor is required to hold a minimum of two set 60-minute "office hours" at NYU London per week which will include two 20-minute meetings with each student per semester.

Applicants should have a terminal degree in a relevant field including but not limited to Writing, Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Journalism, Translation Studies, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, English Literature, Anthropology, or History of Science. It is expected that the post-holder will ideally have 2 to 3 years of effective experience teaching writing, creative writing, or other writing-intensive courses at the university level; experience teaching American undergraduates is helpful. We welcome teachers driven by a sense of writing community and collective inquiry.

Please submit a 1-page cover letter, CV, Teaching Evaluations, 1-page Teaching Philosophy Statement, 1-2 pages of teaching materials for a class you have taught (either a lesson plan, assignment prompt, or writing resources) that are suggestive of your pedagogical values, and the names and contact information for three references, via Interfolio.