John Waters taught at Wake Forest University, the University of Notre Dame, and Louisiana State University before taking up a joint appointment in the English Department and the Irish Studies Program based at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, where he was the founding director of the interdisciplinary MA in Irish and Irish American Studies. He currently teaches courses in Irish Writing from the 17th century to the present, with a special emphasis on Irish Modernism, Joyce and Beckett, contemporary poetry and Irish Drama, as well as courses on Exile and Migration for the NYU College Core Program.