James Franco’s Next Role: Nutty NYU Professor

James Franco has a gazillion jobs but what he really wants to do is teach you how to direct.

NYU confirms that Hollywood oddity and grad student has accepted a gig instructing a class of third-year film students at the Karbar Institute of Film & Television on the downtown Manhattan campus. On the syllabus: a short film adaptation of a Louise Gluck poem. Gluck, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a writer-in-residence at Yale, where Franco is getting his Ph.D. in English. (He almost taught there last fall. Of course he did!).

"James has an amazing mind and limitless energy," raves John Tintori, chair of NYU's 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."

And due to a "Social Network"-esque glitch in the system, they also might be able to snag Franco's email address too.