Department of English Language and Literature

Discover what you can do with a degree in English

Imagine immersing yourself in the exploration of diverse texts and language practices. Picture classes where analysis meets imagination, and your education becomes a dynamic and collaborative intellectual journey. Your critical thinking skills translate into diverse career paths.

By gaining self-reliance, empathy and intellectual focus, you will graduate to become teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, publishers, content designers, attorneys and activists. These exciting careers draw on your analytic skills and humanistic values. You can effect change as prepared, engaged and effective educators, setting the stage for the next generation.

Our Department

The Department of English Language and Literature consists of vibrant, interdisciplinary programs to study how cultures and writers communicate all over the world. We have a robust and talented faculty who will engage with you, offer advising and mentorship throughout your time at SFSU. In our student-centered classrooms, you will discover opportunities to use multiple technologies, genres and theories to read critically the word and the world around us, with an eye toward writing the future.