Category: Jobs & Internships

Job Opportunity: The Graide Network

Sometimes, it can feel like there’s a dissonance between being an English major and deciding what to do with that major. It’s rare that you’ll get to analyze literature for the rest of your career. There are also so many different experiences that the major opens up. So what’s an English major to do? One…

?INTERNSHIP ALERT? Apply to Tin House!

Portland’s very own independent publishing house is looking for interns for all departments in the upcoming year! Whether you’re interested in editorial work, design, marketing/publicity, or magazine publishing, Tin House has a PAID internship for you! Follow the link for more information about the internships available: https://tinhouse.com/internships/…

“You’re an English major? So you want to teach, right?”

by Hope Dorman We’ve all probably been asked if we want to be teachers once we tell people that we’re English majors. To those who ask, English is a limited career field, but we know it to be so much more. There are many viable options for English majors, though it might be hard for…

Life After the English Major

by Hope Dorman On February 9th, the English Department hosted a panel called “Life After the English Major” which featured alumni who majored in English and provided some insight into what their careers look like a few years down the road. We heard from a news reporter, a school psychologist, a marketing manager at Nike,…

Writers Wants Editors

by Morgan Mann Writers Magazine is currently accepting applications for our 2016 Editorial Board. For those of you who haven’t heard of Writers: it is an annual publication of current UP students’ creative writing—prose, poetry, nonfiction, etc.—and visual art—photography, sketches, paintings, prints, etc.  If you want to check out previous editions, go here.  Hey!  I’m…

Apply for the Civil Rights Immersion

By Erika Murphy The Moreau Center is pretty awesome. We have all these immersions where we get to learn about social justice on the scene with some hands on learning. My own experiences on immersions impacted my entire university experience. I saw how much need there is in the world, and how beautiful the people…

Alumni Panel Preview: Bridget Flaherty

by Danielle Childs  This Monday, March 30th at 5:45 PM in Franz 025, is UP English Department’s Alumni Panel where current English majors can come and learn from actual real life human beings about some of the options available to them with a degree in English. In the flesh! I know we’ve all sat in class…

Seeking Equilibrium: Internship Advice from a Fellow English Major

by Erika Murphy  Despite the fact that I have a reassuring advisor and a relaxed father, I caught the contagious what-am-I-doing-with-my-life anxiety early on last year. Weekly internship updates had started coming. New to the English major, I suddenly felt pressure to determine the path from sophomore year to ultimate career. And so, I did…