Internship Opportunities
GEORGE ELIOT ARCHIVE
Digital Humanities Internship Opportunities
The George Eliot Archive welcomes internship proposals from students at any college or university whose program will award academic credit for a remote internship built around applied digital skills and research methods for humanities students. Internships run one or two semesters and give students hands-on experience representing, visualizing, and analyzing digital texts. Dr. Rilett directs several open access digital humanities projects, and students may gain experience working on any of them, including the George Eliot Archive, the George Eliot Review Online, George Eliot Scholars, and Alabama Authors of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Internship Focus Areas
No prior experience with digital humanities or computer programming is required. Interns may work on any of the general skill areas below, or on one of our current and upcoming subprojects.
- Managing scholarly databases and applying metadata standards
- Encoding text materials and transcription projects
- Web publishing and digital exhibit design
- Text analysis tools and data visualization methods
Current and Upcoming Subprojects
We are actively building new subprojects and welcome interns eager to help develop them from the ground up, including:
- Character network mapping for George Eliot's major novels
- Interactive digital games modeled on Conway's Game of Life, based on Eliot's fiction
- A collection of adaptations of Eliot's novels, including 19th and early 20th century fan fiction
- Digitization of Eliot's manuscript notebooks
- Digitization of George Henry Lewes's published and private writings
- Expansion of Eliot's social network map beyond its current 125 close friends and family members
- Text analysis applications for Eliot's nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and private writing
Program Requirements
- Course credit at the student's home institution, or a paid position
- 150 hours of work per semester, averaging roughly 9 to 10 hours per week
- A scheduled weekly check-in meeting, held in person or via Zoom
- A brief weekly progress report along with an updated work log
- A closing reflection essay and a 10-minute video presentation of project contributions
Application Instructions
To apply, submit a 1-to-2 page proposal along with a current CV. The proposal should describe your academic background, relevant skills, and research interests, the project you hope to undertake and its relevance to your program of study, and anticipated outcomes scoped to yield a concrete result within the internship timeframe. Students earning course credit should also include the name and contact information of their supervising faculty member.
Contact Information
Please send all application materials and inquiries to Dr. Beverley Park Rilett, Associate Research Professor and Digital Humanities Coordinator at Auburn University Libraries, via email bdr0032@auburn.edu.