Internships
The English Department provides its undergraduates with a variety of internship experiences in the worlds of scholarly and literary publishing, as well as digital humanities, tutoring, academic research, and community outreach. Students receive departmental course credit or hourly wages, depending on the internship. These internships offer students valuable work experience to go along with their first-rate educations.
For additional opportunities; help with cover letters, resumes, or CVs; interview strategies; and more, please visit the CLA Career Center!
MyCCO | COVE & Branch | Crow | Modern Fiction Studies | NAVSA | PLaCE | Wilke Research Internship | The Writing Lab
Description:
MyCCO is where Purdue students and alumni search and apply for part-time community jobs, internships and full-time positions, schedule interviews, and see what companies are coming to campus for career fairs and information sessions.
Description:
Help run two scholarly sites devoted to publishing scholarship about nineteenth-century British art, history, and literature. Tasks may include: database maintenance, geospatial mapping, and user support.
BRANCH provides users with a free, easy-to-use, and peer-reviewed overview of the period 1775-1925. Unlike dry chronologies that simply list dates with minimal information about the many noteworthy events of a given year, BRANCH offers a compilation of a myriad of short articles on not only high politics and military history but also “low” or quotidian histories (architecture design, commercial history, marginal figures of note, and so on). Authors come from History, Art History, and English departments across the world.
COVE is a scholar-driven, open-access platform that publishes peer-reviewed Victorian material; provides tools to support Victorian research and pedagogy; and advocated for the interests of the humanities.
Students interested in interning with BRANCH or COVE should contact Prof. Dino Felluga at felluga@purdue.edu.
Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing
writecrow.orgDescription:
Crow is a web-based platform that supports research and professional development in applied linguistics and rhetoric & composition. Our team, spread across multiple universities, is working to build a corpus and repository of student writing materials that is accessible to researchers and instructors across writing studies. This platform provides a means for users to share data between institutions and to explore connections between student writing (corpus) and pedagogical materials (repository). All Crow researchers develop a variety of skills while working directly with faculty and graduate students from multiple fields. Paid internships are possible, pending grant funding.
Qualifications:
The Crow internship is tailored to each student; as such, you will be able to shape your experience according to your interests. Applicants should be English or Professional Writing majors interested in:
- Developing content strategy for website and social media presence
- Coordinating social media to promote Crow events and news
- Planning and coordinating Crow events, such as research conferences and meetings
- Generating promotional material, including flyers and brochures
- Co-writing grant applications with faculty and graduate students
- Managing tasks and collaborative projects using our team communication platforms
- Learning Python coding to build corpus and repository
- Presenting Crow work in progress at research conferences
- Letter of interest.
- Résumé or curriculum vita including the names of at least three references.
- Unofficial transcript.
Application Deadline
Applications are accepted at any time. For course credit, applications need to be submitted at least one month in advance of the first day of classes.
For more information, visit our website at writecrow.org or contact Professor Bradley Dilger at dilger@purdue.edu or 309-259-0328 (voice or text).
Modern Fiction Studies
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mfs-modern-fiction-studies
Description:
Learn the world of academic publishing by working with the staff of MFS Modern Fiction Studies, an internationally recognized journal. Responsibilities of MFS undergraduate interns include interacting with university presses, soliciting book reviews from scholars, helping with MFS’s social media presence, and aiding in the operations of a top-tier academic journal. This position is suitable for undergraduate English majors who are interested in pursuing a graduate degree and/or a career in academic publishing. Interns should be able to work for MFS for at least 2 semesters, and preferably 4. MFS interns work approximately 5 hours per week, and receive a $500 stipend per semester.
List of Qualifications:
Applicants should be English majors with a Literature concentration. An interest in British, American, and postcolonial fiction from 1890 to the present is welcome. The successful applicant will be motivated, reliable, detail-oriented, and able to work both independently and collaboratively. Applicants also should be familiar with MLA style, proficient with MS Word and Google spreadsheets, and able to correspond respectfully with MFS contributors.
Applicants should submit:
- A letter of interest of no more than one page (please include a phone number and email address).
- A resume or curriculum vitae.
- An unofficial transcript.
- A writing sample of 4-5 pages showcasing your best academic writing.
Application Deadline:
To apply for this position, please email the requested application materials as a single PDF file to Prof. Linett, Associate Editor, at mlinett@purdue.edu by April 5, 2024.
NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
NAVSA, which started at Purdue, is now the largest organization in the world dedicated to the study of Victorian Britain. Help run the organization by maintaining NAVSA’s database, blogs, and Twitter feed!
Students interested in interning with NAVSA should contact Prof. Dino Felluga at <felluga@purdue.edu>
PLaCE
https://www.purdue.edu/place/
Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange supports international students learning English as a second language, and provides cultural support as they adjust to life at a U.S. university. This internship is affiliated with ENGL490001 Internship in English Language Teaching, Learning, and Acquisition. In this course, students gain hands-on experience in the PLaCE Program and learn about second language teaching, learning, and assessment in an adult ESL context. Interns will have the chance to work directly with PLaCE staff and students. The internship will provide experiences to learn about curriculum design, lesson planning, material creation, and instruction. Activities may include training, observations, individual projects, and teaching or tutoring PLaCE students.
PLaCE works with undergraduate and graduate students who have come from countries where English is not the native language. These people bring an essential cultural diversity to the campus and enrich our academic environment, but they need support in adapting to life and university study in a new country. PLaCE helps to ensure that these students are able to integrate into the Purdue community, develop relationships with U.S. peers and engage in intercultural experiences that benefit everyone on campus.
Thanks to the College of Liberal Arts’ Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Internship program, students can receive $500 to work with an English department faculty member on a research project of their choice. They also take part in an internship seminar introducing them to research methods and ethics, and graduate education. Recently, our students have assisted faculty with research on pirates, The Hobbit, digital humanities, Milton in translation, black feminism, bioethics, science fiction, museum archive studies, and more!
The Writing Lab
Our award-winning Writing Lab helps students develop as writers, no matter what their skill level. It offers both on-campus consultations and online resources. This internship is affiliated with ENGL 39000 Practicum In Tutoring Writing, which prepares undergraduates for tutoring in the Writing Lab. Students will learn writing center theory and gain hands-on experience with writing strategies.
For information and application materials:
or contact writing.lab@purdue.edu