In our globalised world, job markets are highly competitive and the need for precisely-tailored academic and professional profiles is ever-increasing. It is one of our main goals to prepare our students for national and international careers in both academic and non-academic sectors. Through sound academic training and the opportunity to gain teaching experience, graduates pursuing academic careers will be well-equipped to continue their research, typically in the form of a PhD. Those aiming at the non-academic sector will be especially qualified for professions requiring intercultural competence and expertise in the fields of language, literature, the production and interpretation of texts, and communication – e.g., in the publishing industry, media, advertising, and public relations.

Professional Skills

The Career Service offers professional skills training through workshops and seminars. If you are interested in improving your foreign language skills, you will find a varied range of general and subject-specific courses at the Sprachenzentrum [en].

Academic Networks

If you are interested in going to conferences and getting in touch with other scholars, you might want to check out the networks and academic annoucements on H-Soz-Kult and H-Net.

Professional organisations:

• American Studies Association (ASA)
• Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
• Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
• German Association for American Studies (GAAS)
• Postgraduate Forum of the GAAS (PGF)

PhD Studies

The University of Münster offers structural doctoral programmes in literary and cultural studies and linguistics. Further information is available on the websites of the Graduate Schools Practices of Literature and Empirical and Applied Linguistics. General information on doctoral programmes at WWU Münster can be found here.

SAFIR, the university's third-party funding support service, provides detailed information on PhD scholarships.

Internships/Jobs

The Career Service offers information on jobs and internships in Germany and abroad. If you are looking for a job or internship, you will find current offerings on these websites:

• academics.de
• Annual Report on English and American Studies
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten (ALG)
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• Deutscher Museumsbund
• German Association for American Studies (GAAS)
• H-Soz-Kult
• Karriereportal der WWU
• Kulturmanagement Network
• WiLa Arbeitsmarkt Bonn
• Zeit Stellenmarkt