伊利诺伊州立大学的研究生课程采用英语研究模式，该模式探讨了修辞学，文学和文化研究，语言学，批判理论，写作和教学法之间的相互作用。我们提供两个高级学位：博士学位。英语研究，英语硕士，以及高中/中学写作教学的学士后证书和向其他语言的英语教学的研究生证书（TESOL ）。学生与一群有不同研究兴趣的研究生院一起工作。儿童文学，创意写作，英语教育，语言学，文学和文化研究，修辞和写作（包括新媒体研究，专业写作和修辞，修辞和作文以及教学写作），而TESOL为我们的学生和研究人员社区提供了手段通过我们讲的故事以及讲给他们
In English Studies, multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives are used to examine and produce texts for audiences communicating in English: How do cultures shape language and how does language shape culture How do intersections of cultures affect communication across borders What forms can we create to connect and enter into dialogue with each other Children's Literature, Creative Writing, English Education, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Writing (including New Media Studies, Professional Writing and Rhetorics, Rhetoric and Composition, and Teaching Writing), and TESOL offer our community of students and researchers the means of examining how we teach, learn, and understand ourselves and others through the stories we tell and the ways in which we tell them.