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NYU Sydney is seeking a lecturer to teach the course 'World Literature: Reading Down Under' to undergraduate students during the NYU semester of August-November 2025.

Responsibilities of the instructor include preparing and leading the weekly class sessions, course coordination, writing assignments, and grading. Lecturers are paid at competitive casual academic rates aligned with local enterprise agreements. In addition to their teaching duties, they will be paid to attend periodic meetings and training, including an induction meeting during the orientation week prior to the start of the semester.

Classes take place at the University of Sydney's Camperdown/Darlington Campus.

Course Description

This course invites students to read ‘down under’ through the literatures of Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Indigenous, settler, migrant and diasporic writing. By reading major texts from these regions, we will explore a number of key questions in these fields. How have the cultural, historical, and economic processes of colonialism, diaspora and migration inspired, connected, framed or obscured the literature of these diverse region(s)? How have different authors addressed these processes in their literary works? What is the relationship between issues of race, indigeneity and nationalism in these regions? How might literary mappings of geographical sites such as the interior, the coastline, the island, and the ocean foreground, amplify, or disrupt these discourses? What particular roles have Australia and New Zealand, as colonial powers in their own right, played in the region?

Students in this course will examine novels, poetry, short story collections, biographies, films and theoretical texts to develop their critical thinking, reading and writing skills. Along the way, they will gain a solid grounding in the concepts of post-colonialism, race, diaspora, indigeneity, nationalism and multiculturalism.

A sample syllabus is available on the NYU Sydney website. (https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/globalPrgms/documents/Sydney/Syllabi/spring-2025/Syl\_Sydney\_ENGL-UA9164\_Moore\_Spring2025.pdf)

About NYU and NYU Sydney

Founded in 1831, New York University is the largest private university in the United States. The University has degree-granting campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai and operates 11 global academic centers and research programs in more than 25 countries. New York University sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university. Since opening in 2012, NYU Sydney has run an undergraduate study away program of exceptional quality with teaching strengths across the curriculum. Our lecturers, drawn from local universities, have a strong track record in teaching and research. To learn more about our program, please visit NYU Sydney (https://www.nyu.edu/sydney.html) .

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Applicants must be based in Sydney, and should hold a doctorate in English literature or a related field and have demonstrated experience teaching university students at the undergraduate level.

Applications must include a CV and a letter of interest outlining their suitability to teach this particular class.

All applications must be made online through Interfolio ByCommittee at apply.interfolio.com/165363 .

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Please direct any questions to Yuri Ogura, Assistant Director for Academic Coordinating and Planning at NYU Sydney via email: [email protected]

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