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[[[Scott Andrews (professor)]]==]

Dr. Scott Andrews, a professor in the English Department of California State University Northridge since 2000, teaches courses in American literature and American Indian literature, and is the author of reviews, essays, poems, and short stories published in various journals.

One of his poems, published in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Dr. Andrews received his Ph.D. and M.A. at the University of California Riverside and his B.A. at the University of Oklahoma. Although Dr. Scott specializes in American Indian literature, he also teaches, or has taught, courses in major American writers, realism and naturalism in the novel, as well as other literary subjects. He serves on the editorial board for two native studies journals: Studies in American Indian Literatures and Transmotion (an online journal of postmodern indigenous studies).

He has recently been named Interim Director for the American Indian Studies Program, a program which he headed as Director from 2009 to 2014. The program seeks “to promote an understanding of American Indian history, cultures and tribal sovereignty with a focus on Southern California tribes, urban American Indians and other indigenous peoples in a global context. The program seeks to revise Western knowledge of the history and culture of the United States to include American Indian perspectives and contributions. It also seeks to demonstrate the relevance of American Indian perspectives to contemporary political, economic and social issues in the United States and the world.” Dr. Andrews serves on the board of the American Indian Scholarship Fund of Southern California, which provides support for native students attending colleges and universities in the region. At CSUN, he serves on the President's Commission on Diversity and Inclusion.

Dr. Andrews is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He is faculty advisor for the American Indian Student Association at CSUN, where he has helped co-ordinate the Annual CSUN Powwow, on the Sierra Quad, for nearly a decade.