Professor Barry Spurr has resigned from the University of Sydney, two months after he was exposed for sending a series of inflammatory emails that included derogatory references to Aboriginals, Asians and women.
The university released a statement on Thursday morning saying the poetry professor had submitted his resignation, which had been accepted by the university.
"At Professor Spurr's request, the university will provide no further comment on this matter," the statement said.
Professor Spurr was suspended from the university in October, pending an investigation into his leaked emails, which were published on the New Matilda website.
In the series of emails written to friends and colleagues spanning more than two years, Professor Spur referred to people as "abos", "bogans", "fatsoes", "Mussies" and "Chinky-Poos".
He called the late South African president Nelson Mandela a "darkie" and Archbishop Desmond Tutu a "witch doctor"; referred to Prime Minister Tony Abbott as an "Abo lover"; and described an Aboriginal family as a human "rubbish tip".
He also referred to University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson as "an appalling minx".
Professor Spurr claimed the emails were written in jest as part of a "whimsical" game of linguistic one-upmanship.
At the time, Professor Spurr had been employed as a specialist consultant to make recommendations to the federal government's review of the national English curriculum.
