Internship Opportunities for English Majors and Minors
Whether you’re majoring or minoring in English, our departmentally sponsored, co-curricular internships offer you a variety of learning opportunities.
Opportunities allow you to:
- Apply your literary knowledge and skills in analysis and writing.
- Gain marketable experience working collaboratively in time-sensitive circumstances.
- Contribute to the growth of the Merrimack English program and to the stature of the literary arts within the Merrimack community.
Field Activity Researchers
As a field-activity assistant for special English course offerings with hands-on/field-visit components, you’ll help faculty identify feasible field destinations, activities and contacts; do online research; help organize location visits; and, schedule permitting, participate in field activities and location visits with the class group.
Annual Spring Symposium
This internship is for senior English majors. Under the guidance of a faculty member, you’ll participate in planning, organizing and overseeing all aspects of the Spring Symposium, including conceptualizing a theme for the event. The purpose of the symposium is to showcase all forms of student and faculty literary production at Merrimack.
Writers House
Working under the mentorship of the director of The Writers House and Studio, you’ll assist the director and program coordinator in planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting events held at the facility, such as public readings, lectures, book parties and signings, workshops and other activities.
Additional Internship Positions
Today’s postgraduate pathways, whether to grad school or into the workforce, have one thing in common – they require strong communication and critical thinking skills.
In each of our internships, you’ll work closely with a full-time English faculty member to customize a 4-credit, one-semester experience.
Position Title | Description of Role |
|---|---|
Merrimack Review Senior Editor | Manage the editorial staff of the school-wide literary journal and bring the publication to print once a year. |
Visiting Writers Series Intern | Help the faculty Director promote and coordinate the Visiting Writers Series. |
English House Event Coordinator | Develop and coordinate department-wide student events each semester. |
English House Content Creator | Build and maintain the English House social media accounts to promote and all happenings at the English House. |
Jail Education Teaching Assistant | Work alongside faculty teaching incarcerated students for the Jail Education Project. |
Honors Program PR/Communications Intern | Create marketing strategies and materials, and hone persuasive writing skills in a professional work setting alongside the Honors Program Director, Program Manager, and student leaders. |
First Year Writing Intern | Learn how to plan, organize, and implement various components of an introductory-level college course and its materials. Work with and shadow First-Year-Writing faculty to support student success. |
Academic Assistant | Act as a Teaching or Research Assistant to English Department faculty. |
Alumni Liaison | Coordinate alumni outreach and catalog information, and develop event-planning skills while working closely with graduate fellows, other interns, and faculty. |
