Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education and Scholarship)

This full-time post is available on a fixed-term basis from 15 September 2025 to 31 December 2025.

Department of English and Creative Writing
The post of Lecturer in Creative Writing is based within the Department of English and Creative Writing, which is part of HASS.

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 role
You will have responsibility for the design, development and production of teaching and learning material and delivery across a range of Creative Writing modules. The undergraduate modules that you will be expected to teach are likely to include Write after Reading (EAS1042) and Building a Story (EAS2031).

The post will include the development and delivery of teaching and learning materials and the assessment of student learning on Creative Writing modules. You will be expected to lead seminars and/or workshops; deliver lectures; set assignments and assess students’ work; and provide academic support for students through our personal tutoring system. You may also be asked to supervise student projects and/or contribute to the delivery of postgraduate teaching.

About you
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 Creative Writing, to develop teaching 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, facilitate outreach work, or build relationships for future activities.
• 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.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) for full details of this role.

What we can offer you:

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines.
• Support teams that understand the University wide teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly.
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development.
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supports high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career.
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

Further information
Before submitting an application you may wish to discuss the post further by contacting Professor Chloe Preedy, Director of Education and Student Experience for the Department of English and Creative Writing, at C.Preedy@exeter.ac.uk.

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