EnglishGraduate Program Summary |
Graduate Degrees OfferedM.A.; Ph.D. Specializations Offered Great Plains Studies; International Human Rights and Diversity; 19th Century Studies; Women's and Gender Studies Areas of Study Composition and Rhetoric; Creative Writing; Critical Theory; Ethnic Literatures; Women's Literatures; Medieval and Renaissance Literatures; 19th Century Literatures (American, 18th Century, Romantic, and Victorian British Literatures); 20th Century Literatures (American Literatures and British Modernism); Place-Based Writing (Literatures of the Great Plains and the American West) Application ChecklistRequired by Office of Graduate Studies
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Owen Day, a M.A. student in 19th century British literature, converses with Kristin Naca, a creative writing Ph.D., in Bailey Library. Deliberating on graduate school, Day recounted, "I chose UNL because of the variety of strong emphases available to graduate students." |
Description of ProgramThe 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. |
ContactGraduate Chair Nicholas SpencerGraduate Secretary Sue Hart402-472-0961 Department Address 202 Andrews HallLincoln NE 68588-0333 Department Website
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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 | |
| Franz Blaha | Comparative Literature; 20th Century Drama | |
| 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 | |
| James Ford | Literary Criticism; Critical Pluralism; Research Methods | |
| Gwendolyn Foster | Film; Women's Studies; Cultural Studies; Screenwriting | |
| Chris Gallagher | Composition and Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Pedagogy | |
| Tom Gannon | Native American Literatures; Romanticism; Web Literature | |
| Amy Goodburn | Composition; Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Pedagogies | |
| Donald Gregory | American Literature | |
| Janet Harkness | Discourse Analysis; Survey Science; Linguistics; Cultural Anthropology | |
| 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 | |
| Ruth Nisse | Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Drama | |
| 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 | |
| Nicholas Spencer | 20th Century American Literature; Critical Theory | |
| Shari Stenberg | Composition and Rhetoric; Critical and Feminist Pedagogies; Literacy Studies; Teaching and Writing Development | |
| Robert Stock | Restoration and 18th Century Literature | |
| Deborah Williams Minter | Composition; Literacy Studies; Rhetoric |
