English majors do not really take classes; we take experiences.

Wendy Rogers UNL English major
Student reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in one of Kwakiutl Dreher's classes

Most of our classes are run as small, intimate, discussion-based seminars, not large anonymous lectures. In English classes, your ideas are valued, your opinions matter. Your professor will know your name. And the experiences you undertake will be more varied than you may have imagined:

Walt Whitman · Film History · African poetry · Shakespeare · Chicano/a literature · Science fiction · Willa Cather · LGBTQ Literature and Queer Theory · Digital humanities · Native American literature · Poetry writing · Rhetorical analysis · Fiction writing · Film Criticism · Publishing and Editing · Nature writing and ecology · Sherman Alexie · Children's literature · Creative nonfiction · The Harlem Renaissance · Great Plains studies · Jane Austen · Slam poetry · German cinema · Women's and gender studies · Modern drama · Film theory

You can download a schedule and course description booklet for this semester's courses below. For a complete list of English undergraduate courses offered at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, refer to the university's Undergraduate Catalog.

The world isn’t just “out there.”

It's right here in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In the Department of English, we engage critically with a wide variety of experiences through imaginative reasoning—the ability to use the imagination to think hypothetically about the world in all its diversity—connecting the past, present, and future, the local and the global.

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Summer 2024 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/895: Young Writers Camp Internship
Stacey Waite

FILM 4/813: Film- The Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Realism in Contemporary Global Art Cinema
Marco Abel

ENGL 957B: Nebraska Writing Project
Stacey Waite and Jillian Harpster

ENGL 973: Nebraska Humanities Project - Advanced Institute
Shari Stenberg

Fall 2024 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 3/880: Writing Center Theory and Practice
Rachel Azima

ENGL 4/801K: LGBTQ Drama and Popular Culture
Timothy Schaffert

ENGL 4/810: Speculative Fiction: Stories of Imagined Pasts
Guy Reynolds

ENGL 4/845K: "Water Got No Enemies." H2O Aesthetics in Pan-African Literary & Visual Cultures
Ng'ang'a Wahu-Mũchiri

ENGL 4/878: Archives and Editions
TBD

ENGL 892: The University in American Society: History, Labor, & Academic Freedom

Julia Schleck

ENGL 914: Seminar in Women Writers
Melissa Homestead

ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Marco Abel

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Fiction Writing
Chigozie Obioma

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Poetry Writing
Kwame Dawes

ENGL 957: Comp Theory & Practice
Mavis Beckson

ENGL 973: Collaborative Writing Pedagogy
Rachael Shah

One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills
TBD

Spring 2025 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/865: The Victorian Novel
Peter Capuano

ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH
TBD

ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry

Hope Wabuke

ENGL 986: Approaches to English Studies: Editing Creative Work
Timothy Schaffert

ENGL 971: Aesthetics and Politics
TBD

ENGL 932: American Authors <1900. Black Vistas: Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption
Ken Price

ENGL 918: Resistance & Representation in Nineteeth-Century Global Voices
Adrian Wisnicki

ENGL 995: Teaching Literature: Teaching Literature Across Genre and Period
Laura White

ENGL 875A: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Shari Stenberg

ENGL 976: Queer Rhetorics/Queer Pedagogies
Stacey Waite

One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: Comps to Dissertation
Anne Nagel

ENGL 993: Placement
TBD

ENGL 895: Writing Center Internship
Rachel Azima

Fall 2025 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 3/880: Writing Center Theory and Practice
Rachel Azima

ENGL 4/814 Women's Literature
Hope Wabuke

ENGL 4/845K: Literatures of the African Continent
Ng’ang’a Mũchiri

ENGL 852: Fiction Writing
Joy Castro

ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Marco Abel

ENGL 882: Literacy 7 Community Issues
Rachael Shah

ENGL 892: Literature & Embodiment
Peter Capuano

ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice
Mavis Beckson

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Poetry
Kwame Dawes

ENGL 963: Gender &nbsp European Imperialism in the Americas
Julia Schleck

One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills
Janel Simons

Spring 2026 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/802: American Poetry and Social Change
Ken Price

ENGL 4/810: Modernism: City and Region
Guy Reynolds

ENGL 4/877: Artificial Intelligence For The Humanities
Adrian Wisnicki

ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Hope Wabuke

ENGL 857A: Composition and Rhetorical Theory
Shari Stenberg

ENGL 875: Cultural Rhetorics
Mavis Beckson

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Poetry
Chigozie Obioma

ENGL 965: Ninteenth Century British Literature: The Gothic
Laura White

ENGL 971: Queer Theory
Gabrielle Owen

One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: Comps to Dissertation
Anne Nagel

ENGL 993: Placement
TBD