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\u00c9ireann Lorsung | teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n

I have more than fifteen years of experience teaching writing and literature in a variety of settings, both within and outside of universities. I love to work closely with both undergraduate and graduate students as well as with adult learners outside of traditional institutions. Teaching supports and develops my creative practice; in the classroom, my students often help me work out ideas I could not have arrived at alone.
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In June 2022 I joined the staff of the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin (IE) as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, where I teach MA and BA courses and supervise PhD students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 2021-22 school year, I was Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Simpson College, where I taught general education courses in poetry, fiction, literature, and social justice\/first-year writing, as well as an advanced creative writing course that integrated literary magazine editing and production and an advanced literature seminar on contemporary nonfiction from the US and EU. In 2020-2021, I taught a year-long suite of observational practice courses through the Maine Media College + Workshops in addition to teaching in the MA in Publishing and the undergraduate creative writing program at Emerson College in Boston, MA. In spring 2021, as Faculty of the Baccalaureate at Bard College, I taught Life Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2017-2020, I was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing – Nonfiction at the University of Maine – Farmington. At UMF I had the pleasure of teaching nonfiction and poetry classes in the BFA in Creative Writing, as well as courses in book history and book arts, editing, literary analysis, and multi-genre creative writing. I supervised several Honors projects and theses (both literary and scholarly, but most often a cross between the two) and have loved working closely with students on independent studies in nonfiction and book arts. In fall 2020 I taught Intermediate Fiction and a course in the Publishing MA at Emerson College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the classroom, I’m a dynamic and challenging teacher; student feedback shows that my care for students as individual thinkers and writers comes through in my teaching. I teach writing through the close study of literature, and students in my courses do a great deal of reading (usually between five and ten books per semester) as well as writing. Classrooms I share with students frequently integrate practices from visual and performing arts, and texts from disciplines across the humanities, arts, and sciences. My teaching is informed by my own multidisciplinary background and by my conviction that high-quality, beautiful education is a universal right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n