Hours
The English Advising Office is open Monday and Wednesday for appointments from 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., and Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Appointments
Please go to Canvas (under Account--> Settings--> MyPlan--> My Success Network--> Kathleen Lacey). The schedule tab will allow you to see what times are available for individual appointments. You can also search for Kathleen Lacey in the MyPLAN Directory. You are also welcome to call 402-472-3871 to schedule an appointment.
Walk-in Hours
No appointment necessaryWalk-in hours are Fridays from 8:30 am - 11:30 am.
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Reminders
| February 7 (Fri.) | Last day to withdraw from a full semester course and receive 25% refund |
| February 12 (Wed.) | Last day to submit tuition and fees payment without penalty |
Table of Contents
- Digital Humanities Afternoons
- LGBTQA+ 101
- Fulbright Information Session
- Great Plains Lecture: Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains
- Get to Know the LSAT
- First Gen Share a Meal
- REACH Session for Students
- NATIVE VOICES: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness A TRAVELING EXHIBIT
- Asterium Accepting Submissions
- Nebraska Juvenile Justice Association Scholarship Award
- UNL Literary Contest Now Open
- Furrow's Looking for New Works
- Dayton Independent Film Festival (DIFF) Accepting Submissions
- News and Events Intern at Platte Basin Timelapse
- Social Media Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
- Story Producer Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
- Production Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
Courses to Check Out
SUMMER 2020: Classic Horror Films during Pre-Session in English 439/839
This class covers the horror film between 1930 to 1970, a period in cinema history that saw worldwide change in the film medium, and an unprecedented growth in the horror film, as well as experimentation within the film medium itself.
See twenty classic horror films in just three weeks.
Films screened include the original versions of FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, THE MUMMY, SON OF DRACULA, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, CAT PEOPLE, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, THE UNDYING MONSTER, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE DEVIL COMMANDS, HOUSE OF WAX, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, HORROR OF DRACULA, HALLOWEEN, CARRIE and many more.
Class meets Monday - Friday 9:30AM – 12:20PM during Pre-Session from May 18 – June 5, 2020 in RVB 123; the small Ross Theater. Requirements: daily attendance, screenings, discussion, readings, three five page papers.
Department of English Announcements and Events
Humanities on the Edge presents Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Azoulay, documentary film director, curator, and author of books on the political and ethical status of photography, is a professor of comparative literature, modern culture and media at Brown University. She will present, “Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism.”
Additional info on Ariella Azoulay here.
Additional public info here.
- Feb. 13. 5:30 pm–7:00 pm; Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, Sheldon Museum of Art.
All English Department Events for the Semester
CAS Inquire Lecture Series: CARRIE HEITMAN AND HEATHER RICHARDS-RISSETTO: DISCRIMINATORY ALGORITHMS / ANTHROPOLOGY
Feb. 25. 5:30 pm–6:30 pm; Nebraska Union
“Portraiture and Power,” a conversation with Joy Castro and Rhi Johnson
March 17. 5:30pm; Sheldon Museum of Art
CAS Inquire Lecture Series: Panel Discussion
March 31. 5:30 – 6:30pm; Nebraska Union
The Reading Series: Terrance Hayes
April 8. 7:00 – 8:00pm; Sheldon Museum of Art
Humanities on the Edge presents Lauren Berlant
April 9. 5:30 – 7:00pm; Sheldon Museum of Art
Knoll Lecture: Carolyn Forché
April 16. 5:00 – 6:00pm; Andrews Hall
Reading: Carolyn Forché
April 17. 5:00 – 6:00pm; TBD
English Department Convocation
May 1. 1:30 – 3:00pm; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall
Lecture by John Plotz, Brandeis University
May 1. 3:30pm; Andrews Hall
University Announcements and Events
Digital Humanities Afternoons
The second talk is “UNL Campus Archaeology: Building Digital Resources” with Dr. Effie Athanassopoulos, an associate professor in anthropology and classics and religious studies at UNL. In the past four years, Athanassopoulos has been working with archaeological collections recovered from excavations on the UNL Campus. These efforts have led to the UNL Campus Archaeology project, a research project that relates directly to Nebraska’s heritage. Through classroom based research and collaboration, the faculty/student team is analyzing and reassessing archaeological and historical materials to explore the lives of Lincoln’s residents and the city’s early urban development.
- Feb. 12, 3:30 pm–4:30 pm; Room: 221 – Peterson Room, Love Library South, City Campus.
Additional Public Info:
LGBTQA+ 101
Exploring the basic terminology of LGBTQA+ identities, inclusive language, pronouns, campus climate, and LGBTQA+ Resource Center offerings.
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- Contact:LBBTQA+ Resource Center, lgbtqa@unl.edu
Fulbright Information Session
Fulbrights are for graduate study, research abroad, or teaching English abroad. Grants are awarded to graduating seniors, alums, and graduate students in all academic fields and in the creative and performing arts. One-year English teaching assistantships are also available. Applicants must hold a B.A. degree or the equivalent before the beginning date of the grant. Fulbrights provide round-trip airfare, language or orientation courses (where appropriate), tuition (in some cases), book and research allowances, maintenance for the academic year, supplemental health and accident insurance, and, in some cases, funds for spousal support.
Additional public info here.
- Feb. 19, 3:30pm - 4:30pm; Platte River Room South, Nebraksa Union, City Campus.
Great Plains Lecture: Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains
Richard Edwards, Center Director, and Mikal Eckstrom, Post-Doctoral Researcher, will speak on their research about African American homesteaders in the Great Plains. Their project, funded by the National Park Service, seeks to bring to life a history that was nearly forgotten. Dr. Deanda Johnson, National Park Service, and Dr. Jeannette Jones, UNL history department, will comment on their research.
This event is part of the Paul A. Olson seminar series. All events are free and open to the public. Parking is usually available in the Que Place garage (entrance at 11th and Q streets). Please note there is construction in the area.
Additional public info here
- Feb. 19, 3:30pm–4:30pm;Room: Main Gallery, Center for Great Plains Studies,1155 Q St.
Lincoln.
Get to Know the LSAT
Pre-Law students of all grade levels are encouraged to attend this presentation on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). This session will include an overview of the exam and its sections, how to best prepare for the exam during your undergraduate education, practice LSAT opportunities, and timing of the test with law school admissions cycles.
Additional public info here.
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First Gen Share a Meal
Join fellow First Generation Nebraska students, faculty and staff members at the upcoming First Gen Share a Meal event.
Additional public info here.
REACH Session for Students
90 MINUTES THAT MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCUSSION YOU’LL EVER HAVE
All UNL students are invited to attend the REACH Suicide Prevention Training.
Participants who attend REACH will gain confidence to help others.
– Recognize warning signs
– Engage with empathy
– Ask directly about suicide
– Communicate hope
– Help suicidal individuals access care and treatment
To pre-resister go to: https://go.unl.edu/reach0220
- Feb. 20; 2:00pm - 3:30pm; Platte River Room North, Nebraska Union, City Campus.
NATIVE VOICES: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness A TRAVELING EXHIBIT
Vision Maker Media, in partnership with the UNL University Libraries, introduces a new traveling exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, which examines concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people. The traveling exhibition, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), explores the connection between wellness, illness, and cultural life through a combination of interviews with Native people, artwork, objects, and interactive media.
The exhibition will be open to the public all day from January 31-March 12 on the second floor of Love Lirbrary South.
A special opening event will take place from 4:00-6:00 pm on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, with a presentation by Dr. Siobhan Wescott, Assistant Director of Indians into Medicine (INMED), University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences on “How Do You Find Research on Native Americans? Untangling the Confusing Search Terms and Identifying Gaps in the Research.” Reception to follow.
Internships, Jobs, and Professional Development
Asterium Accepting Submissions
Asterism, Ohio State Univeristy's undergraduate international literary journal is now accepting submissions from undergrad students to include in their journal. Asterism is currently accepting submissions for two different categories: poetry and short fiction stories.
Submissions acceptance will close on March 31.
You can submit your works here.
Nebraska Juvenile Justice Association Scholarship Award
Each year, the Nebraska Juvenile Justice Association provides a scholarship to an outstanding college junior or senior working towards a career in juvenile justice or an associated field. The scholarship is meant for those majoring in criminal justice or related fields (e.g., social work, psychology, and mental health). In order to be eligable for the scholarship, students must be associated with the the Nebraska University, a full time student in junior or senior standing, and must have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 with a preference given to those with a GPA of 2.5 or above.
Scholarship Amount : $500
The Deadline for the application is due April 3rd, 2020
If interested in applying see here.
UNL Literary Contest Now Open
The 2019 - 2020 Literary Contest is now open and looking for submissions. Prizes are given to those who win in the field they are submitting for.
For more info on sumission guildlines, elegability, ect. see here.
Furrow's Looking for New Works
There are just a few weeks left before our Feb. 20 deadline. Please spread the word to undergraduate writers and artists that Furrow is eager to consider their work.
Furrow is published each spring by undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. We also feature new work each month at furrowmag.org.
Last year we won the AWP Program Directors' Prize for Best Undergraduate Literary Journal.
We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and comics by anyone enrolled as an undergraduate in the U.S. during the 2019-20 academic year.
We award $100 prizes to the top submission in each genre.
Submitting is free and easy see here.
Dayton Independent Film Festival (DIFF) Accepting Submissions
The purpose of DIFF is to provide meaningful artistic and cultural programming to Dayton’s
thriving community. Our goal is to provide a platform to foster rich dialogue within our
community and an abundance of passion and creativity.
Rules and Guidelines for Submission:
-Filmmaker has to be from the Midwest or has a tie to the Midwest
-Produced within the last 5 years with no premiere status necessary.
Please feel free to click on the link to learn more information about this festival. We encourage
you to share DIFF with other Midwestern filmmakers.
For more info or interested in submitting , see here.
News and Events Intern at Platte Basin Timelapse
Social Media Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
Story Producer Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
Production Intern for Platte Basin Timelapse
Stay Woke: Readings in Social Justice
Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History
When Wild Nights With Emily—a film that dramatizes the romantic relationship between Emily Dickinson and her lifelong consort (and her brother’s wife) Susan Gilbert Dickinson—was released last year, most reviews described it as a comedy or a romp. And certainly, the movie had a ton of great jokes, Molly Shannon’s irreverent and sarcastic portrayal of the poet was infused with humor, and sequences with women giddily fleeing their lovers’ beds under the cover of night were, in fact, romps. In focusing on the humorous aspects of the film, however, a deeper point may have been downplayed, one that has greater historical resonance.
The film is built around a discovery by academics: Where published versions of Dickinson’s poems were dedicated to a “Sam,” the original copies showed that the word “Sue” had been removed and replaced. In the final scene of the movie, we see Mabel Loomis Todd, Dickinson’s brother’s mistress and an early editor of Dickinson’s poems, literally take an eraser to Dickinson’s papers, scrubbing Sue out of the narrative. The closing credits begin in almost-silence, with just the sound of an eraser on paper echoing.
Read more of Catie Disabato's essay here.
Literary News
How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles
As the Great Depression eclipsed the city sun, and the latent criminality of a country emerging from Prohibition started to manifest, detective fiction took hold of Los Angeles. Along with the postwar introduction of European artists and intellectuals into Hollywood, many of them critical of their new setting, which felt to them like a decadent Weimar-by-the-Sea, writers of LA detective fiction “radically reworked the metaphorical figure of the city,” according to Mike Davis, into a “pessimistic antimyth” of American free enterprise that the German exile Theodor Adorno, adept at recognizing totalitarianism, would decry as “the absolute power of capitalism,” and the French, when they saw its likeness on screen, would call noir. Read more about Detective Fiction & Los Angeles at LitHub.
The Risk, and Reward, of Turning from Memoir to Fiction
My first book was a memoir, and after I published it I was sick of myself. I wanted to write other things about other people. I didn’t want so many limits; I sought fresh destinations for my imagination. The problem was I had no idea how to get there. It felt almost like I couldn’t go home any more. Or if I did, it wouldn’t be the same..