What To Do After BA in English Literature?

Editor

An editor is someone who is in charge of what comes out on a publication. This can be a magazine, a newspaper, an online news portal. You will have to take care of the content, not just in terms of the grammar and punctuation, but also you must look into whether the copy is relevant and there aren't any repercussions of publishing the same.

After a BA in English Literature, you can start as a reporter or a content writer, and with experience, you can move up the positions of assistant-editor, sub-editor and so on.

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Writer

Now you do not have to get a BA in English Literature to be a writer. But a student of English literature will have to take up texts from various eras and cultures. You will be exposed to various writing styles and other technicalities of writing. If you have had a course in creative writing that will help you furthermore.

As an author, you can work on your idea for a book, a short story, a novella or poems. You will have to submit the complete manuscript to a publication house. After several rounds of analysis and editing, the work will be published.

Translators

Many might not know this, but translation is a very important area today. There are various career opportunities provided to a person who is proficient in English and another language.

Translation as a whole is a vast area in English literature. Many publication houses will hire you to translate texts from regional or foreign languages to English and vice versa. Translation of academic texts, subtitles in movies and other visual media is also an option.

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An English Teacher

You might think that teaching English will not be interesting. Well, you are wrong. You always have the option of teaching the language, in higher classes, colleges, and universities where you won't be just narrating the story but also diving into the depths of the text.

You can also be a teacher of English in a foreign country. There are many opportunities like this, in countries where they pay a really good amount for teaching English to students who do not have English as their first language.

Mass Communication

After your BA in English, you can definitely take up the media world if you are good at what you do. You can go for production of shows, which can be on Radio, Television, Streaming devices or even a Youtube channel. You can also become communications officer if you take up PR.

Media and communication is a vast area, where jobs are opening up according to the need of the hour. A strong control over language will only help you mold your career.