The English Department sponsors a limited number of academic-year internships for advanced graduate students. Through this training opportunity, the Department aims to facilitate focused, substantive career exploration and the purposeful development of transferable skills.
Students who are selected to pursue an academic-year internship do so in lieu of a GSI placement, with identical remuneration including tuition, fees, Grad Care, and stipend. All academic-year interns are required to enroll in a one-credit professional development practicum during the fall semester.
By integrating internships into the academic year, developing curricular support for interns, and offering compensation commensurate to a GSI appointment, the department affirms our commitment to preparing students for a wide range of humanities careers, as well as our fundamental belief in the broad social and professional value of advanced training in English.
Internship opportunities include the following:
- Detroit River Story Lab - Research/Writing/Digital Humanities Intern
- Michigan Quarterly Review - Assistant Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, Nonfiction Editor
- CLRT - The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at UM
- University of Michigan Museum of Art - Public Humanities and Museum Pedagogy Intern
