The MA in English at EIU offers a high-quality, flexible program ideal for:
Students may complete the program on campus or fully online and they choose from either a thesis or non-thesis option.
All courses are taught by our regular graduate faculty, who are active scholars and writers. Online classes are individually crafted by the faculty members teaching them, just like our face-to-face classes.
Students choose one of three concentrations: Rhetoric/Composition, Literary & Cultural Studies, or Creative Writing.
We also offer a Certificate in the Teaching of Writing (K-16) that is affiliated with the National Writing Project.
Graduate assistantships are available for students who wish to study in residence.
Dr. Suzie Park was awarded the 2015 Provost's Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for the College of Arts and Humanities and the 2015 Rodney S. Ranes Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award for Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Park, on the far right, is pictured with the students who nominated her: from left to right, recent English M.A. graduates Terri Coleman and Stephen Nathaniel, and English undergraduate Molina Klingler.
Campbell's areas of teaching and research are Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature with specialization in the works of continental and English women writers. She is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006) and the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini’s pastoral tragicomedy, La Mirtilla (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002).
With research interests in translation studies, Romantic and Gothic literature, and the intersections between literature, philosophy, and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, C.C. Wharram is director of The Center for the Humanities at EIU. His most recent essay, on the intersections of humanism, translation, and the nonhuman, was published in Educational Theory in October 2014. He edited a special volume on “Teaching Romantic Translation(s)” for Romantic Circle Pedagogies (July 2014).