James Franco NYU lecturer gig!

James Franco is set to become a lecturer at New York University.

The 127 Hours star will lecture a class in directing at NYU’s Karbar Institute of Film and Television at the Greenwich Village-based campus.

“He will be teaching a section of a third year directing class in the graduate film division. It will comprise of 10 to 12 students,” said an NYU spokesman.

The class, which has unsurprisingly already been filled, will begin in the autumn and the group will make a short film adaptation of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck.

“James has an amazing mind and limitless energy,” said John Tintori, the chair of the NYU graduate film program.

“Our students will be fortunate to learn from him. We anticipate the students in his class will feel especially privileged to have him as a teacher.”