Literary and Cultural Studies Program

Our literary and cultural studies program includes courses devoted to the established canon of literary works representing different historical periods. However, literary and cultural studies at Illinois State University is part of a broad-based "English studies model" curriculum emphasizing relationships across a range of areas such as rhetoric, linguistics, technology and culture as well as literature. Literary and cultural studies students engage problems in reading and interpretation of literary and non-literary texts in a variety of discursive contexts.

The literary and cultural studies faculty at Illinois State have published broadly in many areas including American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; British Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Critical Race Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global Cultures; Textual Studies and Print Culture; and Visual Studies.

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