Professional Internships

A limited number of internships are available for qualified students who wish to acquire significant on-the-job experience in the fields of publishing, professional writing, and related areas. Students work with book publishers, literary agencies, magazines, museums, and public relations, in theater, TV or elsewhere, and they have also worked as research assistants with professors on book projects. Please contact Professor Ted Anton for more information.

Internships for graduate students are taken in the second year of classes only. A maximum of four quarter hours of MWR 509, Internship, may be applied to the forty-eight quarter hours required for the degree. 

Most internships are non-paying, though some offer a stipend, and, generally, they take ten to fifteen hours a week for ten weeks. If students take the internship for credit, they must also write a fifteen-page journal. For DePaul University credit, students must register for the course.

Two-Year College Teaching Internships

Teaching internships are designed to help familiarize talented and mature graduate students with the challenges, responsibilities, and rewards of college teaching. As interns, students will attend their course regularly, shadow the faculty member from the planning stages through the completion of the course, and assist in instruction and assessment.

Teaching internships provide teaching experience to students who plan to apply for adjunct positions or full-time employment after they complete their degrees. To be competitive for a teaching internship, students should have completed either ENG 474 "Teaching Literature" or ENG 480 "Teaching Writing" and must be in their second year of study.
A maximum of four quarter hours of ENG 509, Internship, may be applied to the forty-eight quarter hours required for the MAE or MAW degree.

Before applying for an internship, please consult with Dr Goffman about how the internship will fit into your academic program. Then you may submit the following:
• Cover letter explaining your interest in the internship program
• Curriculum vitae (résumé)
• Sample of writing (such as a class paper)
• Copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts


The application deadline for Fall 2008 teaching internships is May 9, 2008.

For more information, please contact Carolyn Goffman.