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 1, 12 noon (CST)