Agreed. Also hard to believe there is an element of ‘everyone hates the prettiest girl in the room’ to this.

“At Harvard, the film maker Spike Lee had a similar arrangement in the 1990s. He taught film theory from the benefit of his own practice. Ian Rankin, the crime novelist, is a visiting professor on the prestigious creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. He gives practical advice about the writing…

I work in humanitarian response and I am in the process of finishing my Oxford DPhil in a linked field.