The Department of English offers a unique combination of creative writing and academic courses in a remarkably stimulating milieu for learning and growing as readers and writers.

The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs in English literature and creative writing. Whether in an intimate workshop or a small classroom setting, students read literature of the English-speaking world from the past through to experimental and popular works of the present as a means to develop skills as insightful and resourceful readers or writers.

Concordia students benefit from the lively cultural and literary life of Montreal, including a variety of international literary festivals such as Blue Metropolis and Voix d'Ameriques. The Department is also home to two active student associations, CASE (undergraduate) and SAGE (graduate), and two journals – Soliloquies and the Headlight Anthology.

The Department also co-sponsors the international Summer Literary Seminar and the Writers Read at Concordia series of readings, workshops, and master classes.