To help enhance placement, the English Department strongly recommends that all graduate students, while here, get practical experience either working on a literary journal, such as The Southeast Review, a scholarly journal, or via some sort of relevant off-campus internship or professional activity. Students can receive course credit for this, too, whether via the sections of ENG 5998 devoted to this SER or other related work or via ENC 5945, Internship in Editing.

The Department has maintained an excellent placement record for its PhD graduates in a challenging job market. The departmental Placement Committee helps prepare job candidates by reviewing letters and vitas early in the fall semester and by scheduling mock interviews for those who will be interviewing at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, on video calls, or on campus visits. Individual advising is available from members of the Placement Committee throughout the job search process. Graduate students are encouraged to begin planning for entry into the job market early in their graduate careers. Do not hesitate to seek advice from senior graduate students, professors, members of the Placement Committee, or the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies.