For more than 75 years, the Graduate Program in English at Illinois has provided students with a comprehensive education in English literature. Our award-winning faculty support coursework and research in all areas of English, American, and Anglophone literature, from the medieval to the contemporary, as well as in film studies, cultural studies, and literary theory. Our program actively encourages interdisciplinary work; students earn graduate minors and certificates in Medieval Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Media and Cinema Studies, African-American Studies, and the internationally-known Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, as well as in many other interdisciplinary units across campus:

• Asian-American Studies Program
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
• Latina-Latino Studies Program
• American Indian Studies Program
• The Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative
• The Program in Jewish Culture and Society

If you are interested in pursuing graduate study in English at Illinois, please feel free to contact faculty members who share your interests.

Application Deadline: December 1st, 12 noon CST

We are one of the top national programs for graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in Writing Studies and its many subfields (including but not limited to composition and rhetoric, discourse studies, literacy studies, language studies, computers and composition, and new-media studies). English graduate students working in writing studies engage in research ranging from historical archival research to ethnographic fieldwork to online digital research.

Graduate students working in the area of Writing Studies have recently published articles in such journals as College Composition and Communication, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Computers and Composition, College English, Enculturation, and Kairos.

Our recent PhD graduates hold tenure-track jobs at such schools as the University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Central Florida, University of Louisville, and Syracuse University.

English faculty and graduate students working in Writing Studies are affiliated with the interdisciplinary Center for Writing Studies on our campus. The Center for Writing Studies coordinates the Writers Workshop, a Writing Across the Curriculum program, and a graduate concentration for graduate students across campus.

Application Deadline: December 1st, 12 noon CST