Jill Abramson’s recent departure from the New York Times caused quite a stir in the media world. Now she’s headed back to academia.

Ravi Somaiya writes at the New York Times.

Jill Abramson, Ex-Times Editor, to Teach at Harvard

Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will teach undergraduate courses in narrative nonfiction at Harvard this fall, the university announced on Thursday.

Ms. Abramson was abruptly dismissed last month by the newspaper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Her firing, less than three years after she was appointed the paper’s first female executive editor, stunned The Times newsroom and the media world.

Mr. Sulzberger said she was dismissed because of her management style. Some published accounts speculated about whether gender played a role, or whether she was let go because she complained that her compensation was less than that of her predecessor, Bill Keller. Mr. Sulzberger said that her total compensation was higher than Mr. Keller’s had been. The dispute played out in articles by The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and dozens of other news and media outlets.

Harvard said in a statement that Ms. Abramson would be a visiting lecturer in the Department of English for the 2014-15 academic year and would teach in the fall and spring semesters. In the statement, Ms. Abramson said she was “honored and excited.”

Narrative nonfiction, she said, “is more important than ever. Its traditions and how it is changing in the digital transition are fascinating areas of study.”

Ms. Abramson previously taught journalism seminars at Yale and Princeton.