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[English prof]

Would anyone happen to know of any means of finding summer teaching opportunities overseas?  It would seem that most study abroad programs hire faculty internally.  Are there ever opportunities for adjunct positions for professors from other colleges and universities?  Is it worth my time to contact universities abroad just to inquire if they are in need of summer faculty (The American University of Paris, for example?)  Will the need for working papers (which, in turn, require an EU passport I do not have), prohibit me from attaining such a post, even if one were to be available?
Any recommendations for other summer teaching positions you would recommend, if I am not able to secure a position overseas?

Thank you for any information you can provide!

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[Langprof]

You could design a study abroad course for your own campus.  If you're in English, put together a course with works that are evocative of a particular place and/or period - you spend two weeks or so reading and discussing this on your home campus and then you and the students head across the Atlantic to explore things first hand.  How about "London in Literature - Literature in London" there have to be a thousand works of literature set in London and there are enough museums and historical sites to keep you busy for ages.  Or maybe "Austen's England" - read the novels and then go off on a tour of country estates and seaside resorts.  You could read Sir Walter Scott and then do a study tour of the Highlands.  Perhaps a contemporary theater course set in London with a new play every night.  The possibilities are endless.

The only downside is that this type of study abroad course is extremely time consuming to organize and you will have to promote it heavily on campus to get enough students involved to cover the costs.  This is not something you should do before you have tenure.

[chocky]

The Open University in the UK hire people for short stints at their residential centers in the summer. I don't think the pay is amazing but you get board and lodging covered I think and usually they are in nice locations (Brighton, York etc). Expect mainly non-traditional adult students, as OU is a distance education university. But well thought of. And I understand it can be quite fun.

Check out www.open.ac.uk -- or -- http://www3.open.ac.uk/residential-school-jobs/summer/content/sub3_1.shtm