Welcome to the Department of English at
California State University, Northridge

With thirty-five tenured and tenure-track faculty and nearly seventy lecturers, we are one of the largest departments on the Northridge campus. The Department of English offers a wide variety of courses and programs in the fields of literature, language, composition and rhetoric, and creative writing.

Quote of the Day

“Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it.”

      -- William Shakespeare

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