Teaching at NELP is exciting--and exhausting! Our faculty not only hold classes in literature and writing, they also lead students on hiking trips and work alongside students in the hard and often dirty work of keeping our community clean, fed, and functioning.
NELP asks its staff to commit to the program for two months, late April through late June, without weekends or days off. Because we are a residential community, our staff live on-site in New Hampshire in unheated cabins. Our days are long; we step away from loved ones and easy access to our regular support systems; during the program, we rarely have time or energy left over for the academic and creative projects we are pursuing outside of NELP.
The satisfactions, though, are many. Each year we get to build an intentional community with brilliant students. We discuss beautiful texts in beautiful places. The relationships we discover at NELP--with our students, with our colleagues, with a mountain view or a body of water, with a poem--make this hard work so full of joy that many of us return year after year.
NELP faculty come from many academic and professional backgrounds. If you're interested in learning more about working at NELP, please send an email to nelp-director@umich.edu.
