Rocker Drops Guitar and Picks Up Books

When we think of college professors, we think of skinny little guys in cardigan sweaters with dodgy haircuts and a pallor suggesting they haven't seen the light of day in something like a decade -- which, come to think of it, makes Johnny Marr a perfect candidate for such a position. Well, the administration of Britain's University of Salford -- located, co-incidentally, in the town where the Smiths posed for the cover of their classic 'The Queen Is Dead' album -- apparently took note of Marr's qualifications and signed him on as a visiting professor, turning his talents towards music, rather than sartorial matters.

The guitarist, who currently plies his trade with Modest Mouse on this side of the Atlantic, will offer workshops and teach master classes to students pursuing their degrees in Popular Music and Recording -- which falls roughly halfway between quantum physics and Theory of Softball on our sliding scale of difficulty. With any luck, the folks who hired Marr will be able to convince him to stick around for another semester in order to helm History of Morrissey 101 -- a topic we're sure he'd be thrilled to weigh in on.

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