Graduate Degree Program Summary
Graduate Degrees Offered
M.A.; Ph.D.
Specializations
- 19th Century Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- Great Plains Studies
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
- Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of Study
- 19th Century Literatures (American, 18th Century, Romantic, and Victorian British Literatures)
- 20th Century Literatures (American Literatures and British Modernism)
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Creative Writing
- Critical Theory
- Ethnic Literatures
- Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
- Place-Based Writing (Literatures of the Great Plains and the American West)
- Women's Literatures
English
- On the WebDepartment Website
- Graduate ChairDr. Marco Abel
- Graduate SecretaryMs. Sue Hart
shart2@unl.edu
402-472-0961 - Department Address202 Andrews Hall
Lincoln NE 68588-0333
Application Checklist and Deadlines
Required by the Office of Graduate Studies
- Application for Graduate Admission
- $50 non-refundable application processing fee
- One set of transcripts, uploaded to MyRED (see upload requirements)
- If your native language is not English: verification of English proficiency
- If you are not a US citizen and you expect to hold an F or J visa: financial resource information
See also: US steps to admission or international steps to admission.
Required by English in GAMES
After you apply, allow one business day for us to establish your access to GAMES, where you'll complete these departmental requirements:
- Entrance exam(s): None
- Minimum TOEFL: Paper-600 Internet-100
- Critical paper in English (15-20 pp.)
- Curriculum vitae or resume
- Statement of education goals (1-3 pp.)
- Teaching experience or evidence of teaching potential
- Three recommendation letters
- Creative writing applicants only: Creative writing sample (See department website for details)
Application Deadline
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Description
The Department of English offers the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the areas of literature studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric. Students with a B.A. may apply for the M.A. or for direct admission into the Ph.D. degree program. Students with an M.A. or M.F.A. may apply for the Ph.D.We offer graduate course work in all listed areas of study. There are also opportunities for students to obtain area of specialization certificates in ethnic studies; Great Plains studies, human rights and humanitarian affairs, 19th century studies, and women's and gender studies.
Diverse opportunities are available for professional development, including development of scholarly and teaching portfolios, participation in critical/literary study groups, a fiction and poetry reading series, and collaboration with faculty on research, teaching, and creative activities.
In addition, the department houses a number of prestigious journals and projects, including Prairie Schooner, one of the most respected literary journals in the nation, the Walt Whitman Archive, the Cather Project, the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference, the Nebraska Writing Project, the Nebraska Literacy Project, the Corvey Collection of 19th Century British Literature, the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Monograph Series, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Graduate students regularly enrich their academic experience through work on these major departmental projects.
Courses and More
The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:- English
- Ethnic Studies
- Great Plains Studies
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
- Women's and Gender Studies
Faculty and Research
Film; Critical Theory
Fiction; Creative Nonfiction; American Literature
Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry
Women Writers; William Blake; Romantic Period
American Literature and Culture; Women's Studies
Rural Education; Community Development
Early Modern England; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton
19th Century British Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; 19th Century Science and the Novel
Creative Writing; Latina Literature; Women's Literature; 20th Century Literature
Composition and Rhetoric; Writing Center Theory and Practice; Critical Race Theory
Kwame Dawes
Creative Writing and Prairie Schooner Editor
Women’s and Gender Studies; Literature Theory; Cultural Studies; War Literature
Women's and Lesbian Literature; Feminist Pedagogy
Emeritus
Emeritus
Film History, Theory, and Criticism
African-American Literature; Popular Culture; Film
Film; Women's Studies; Cultural Studies; Screenwriting
Digital Humanities; 19th Century Literature; Editorial Theory
Native American Literatures; Romanticism; Web Literature
Composition; Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Pedagogies
Intensive English Programs; English as Second Language
American Literature; History of the Book; Women's Authorship
Women Writers; Harlem Renaissance; Popular Culture
Digital Humanities; Irish and Irish American Literature
Canadian Literature; Great Plains Studies; Native American Literature
Creative Writing; Poetry
Ecocriticism; Western and Southwestern American Literature
American Literature; Chicano Literature; Creative Writing; Fiction
British Literature; Narrative Theory; Genre Theory; History of Manners; Anglo-American Modernism; Jane Austen
Francophone and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Literature; Comparative African Diasporic and European Poetics; Genre Studies
Linda Ray Pratt
Victorian-Early Modernist Poetry; 19th and 20th Century British Literature
American Literature and Periodicals; Textual Editing
Digital Humanities; Critical Theory; Drama
Willa Cather; Women's Fiction; American Studies
African-American Literature and Culture; American Literature
Timothy Schaffert
Creative Writing; Fiction Writing
Renaissance Literature and History; Early Modern Travel Literature
Creative Writing
Renaissance Literature; Literature of 16th and 17th Century London
Composition and Rhetoric; Critical and Feminist Pedagogies; Literacy Studies; Teaching and Writing Development
Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Emeritus
Emeritus
Critical and Literary Theory; Psychoanalysis; Contemporary Political Theory, 20th Century Literature; Modernism; Cold War Stories
Composition; Rhetoric; Literacy; Queer Theory/Queer Pedagogies; Teaching of Writing; Feminist and Gender Studies; Creative Writing/Poetry
Composition; Literacy Studies; Rhetoric
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