Education | UM makes agreement on teaching mobility with US university

The University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities has signed an agreement on teaching mobility with George Washington University (GWU) in the United States.
UM stated in a press release that one of the outcomes of the agreement is the teaching staff exchanges in subjects taught in Portuguese and English, with incoming staff initially specializing in English literature.
To mark the beginning of this series of exchanges, the Department of English hosted a round-table symposium on ‘Synergies in English Literature Teaching and Research’.
The purpose of this symposium was to add value to the teaching exchanges by exploring shared teaching and research interests. During the symposium, faculty of the two institutions discussed their educational and research interests, and identified potential areas of collaboration, such as Asian-American literary research, creative writing pedagogy, language and poetics, and English.
The aim was to begin a series of conversations which will develop over time and which may result in the sharing of best practices in teaching and, potentially, joint research projects.
The symposium and the advent of the teaching mobility exchange together mark a key moment in the development of literary teaching and scholarship in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. UM’s statement concluded that scholars from its institution and GWU look forward to deepening their relationships in the future.