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Graduate Program Summary

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Graduate Degrees Offered

M.A.; Ph.D.
Specializations - what's a specialization?
  • 19th Century Studies
  • Great Plains Studies
  • International Human Rights and Diversity
  • 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 Web
    Department Website
  • Acting Graduate Chair
    Dr. Susan Belasco
  • Graduate Secretary
    Ms. Sue Hart
    shart2@unl.edu
    402-472-0961
  • Department Address
    202 Andrews Hall
    Lincoln NE 68588-0333

Application Checklist and Deadlines

Required by the Office of Graduate Studies


  

Required by English

  • 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 letters of recommendation
  • Creative writing applicants only: Creative writing sample (See department website for details)
  • Use GAMES for online submission of materials

Application Deadline

   Fall: January 15

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Description of Program

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 Great Plains studies, international human rights and diversity, 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.

 

Graduate Bulletin

The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:

Faculty and Research

Marco Abel Film; Critical Theory
Jonis Agee Fiction; Creative Nonfiction; American Literature
Grace Bauer Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry
Stephen Behrendt Women Writers; William Blake; Romantic Period
Susan Belasco American Literature and Culture; Women's Studies
Robert Brooke Rural Education; Community Development
Stephen Buhler Early Modern England; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton
Joy Castro Creative Writing; Latina Literature; Women's Literature; 20th Century Literature
Frankie Condon Composition and Rhetoric; Writing Center Theory and Practice; Critical Race Theory
Barbara DiBernard Women's and Lesbian Literature; Feminist Pedagogy
Wheeler Winston Dixon Film History, Theory, and Criticism
Kwakiutl Dreher African-American Literature; Popular Culture; Film
Gwendolyn Foster Film; Women's Studies; Cultural Studies; Screenwriting
Tom Gannon Native American Literatures; Romanticism; Web Literature
Amy Goodburn Composition; Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Pedagogies
Janet Harkness Comparative Survey Methods; Questionnaire Design and Adaptation; Discourse Analysis
Michael Harpending Intensive English Programs; English as Second Language
Melissa Homestead American Literature; History of the Book; Women's Authorship
Maureen Honey Women Writers; Harlem Renaissance; Popular Culture
Frances Kaye Canadian Literature; Great Plains Studies; Native American Literature
Ted Kooser Creative Writing; Poetry
Greg Kuzma Creative Writing; Poetry
Thomas Lynch Ecocriticism; Western and Southwestern American Literature
Amelia Montes American Literature; Chicano Literature; Creative Writing; Fiction
Laura Mooneyham White British Literature; Narrative Theory; Genre Theory; History of Manners; Anglo-American Modernism; Jane Austen
Seanna Sumalee Oakley Francophone and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Literature; Comparative African Diasporic and European Poetics; Genre Studies
Kenneth Price American Literature and Periodicals; Textual Editing
Stephen Ramsay Digital Humanities; Critical Theory; Drama
Hilda Raz Creative Nonfiction; Mixed Genres
Guy Reynolds Willa Cather; Women's Fiction; American Studies
Joy Ritchie Composition; Rhetoric; Feminist Literary Theory
Gregory Rutledge African-American Literature and Culture; American Literature
Julia Schleck Renaissance Literature and History; Early Modern Travel Literature
Gerald Shapiro Creative Writing
Judith Slater Creative Writing
Shari Stenberg Composition and Rhetoric; Critical and Feminist Pedagogies; Literacy Studies; Teaching and Writing Development
Robert Stock Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Ariana Vigil 20th Century American Literature; U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture
Deborah Williams Minter Composition; Literacy Studies; Rhetoric
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