Earn Credit AND Be Paid!
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences encourages students to pursue internships and earn academic credit for them if appropriate. OUS oversees the internship-for-credit process and works with students to identify and pursue internship opportunities, …
ENG 2991-001 English Majors in the Workplace
M 3:20 PM – 4:35 PM for the first 10 weeks of the semester
Michelle Filling-Brown
This course invites students to think intentionally about who they are—and who they are in the process of …
Here are some promising local (to Villanova) internships, as compiled by English MA student Christopher Supplee ’26
Editing & Journalism
Scribe is a publishing services company focused on producing books for mission-driven organizations. They currently have openings in hybrid editorial …
Alumni Career Panel featuring Colleen Francke, ’15, Jill Kingsland, ’05, Elizabeth Kreider, ’07, and Kristy Wallace, ’99.
The second annual Villanova English Career Panel, 2022: featuring alumni Joanna Bowen ’07, Patrick Mullaney ’09, and …
According to the January 2025 report of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the following are the key attributes employers are seeking on college graduates’ resumes:
When asked by NACE to rank the importance of certain career readiness …
“The struggle for most English majors (and, unfortunately, some faculty) is figuring out how to translate the rich cornucopia of skills learned within the program into something employers view as assets. Part of this problem is that catch-phrases like ‘critical …
Here are some resources if you are interested in teaching English as a foreign language abroad:
1. Villanova’s Office of Education Abroad
2. Villanova’s Center for Research and Fellowships (especially Fulbright)
The Fulbright Program, the flagship international educational exchange program …
Villanova English offers a variety of career supports to its students. Some of the ones we’d most recommend using are listed below:
a. English Department LinkedIn group: (reach out to Mike Malloy at michael.malloy@vilanova.edu to join) (over 600 members and …
How to Learn about Internships
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Reach out to English Internship coordinator Mike Malloy about setting up a meeting (Zoom or in-person). You can also ask him about being added to our private LinkedIn group (over 600 members!).
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Believe it or not, the reading, writing, communication, research, and analysis skills that you hone as an English major—along with the creativity and emotional intelligence that literature fosters—are useful calling cards on the job market. But you have to know …
Majoring in English and unsure of where to go after college? Vicky Oliver, author of 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks, 2005) has great advice for English students and grads. Having studied English herself, she knows firsthand …
