Plainstate podcast

In this episode, professor and Nebraska Writing Project director Robert Brooke introduces the basic concepts of place-conscious education and how the project is promoting place-conscious education…

In this episode, Marianne Kunkel and Susan Martens, two English PhD graduates, continue their conversation about their time at UNL and specifically Susan Marten's ongoing career at Missouri Western…

In this episode, Susan Martens interviews Marianne Kunkel, two English PhD graduates, about her time at UNL and her ongoing career at Missouri Western State University.

In this episode, Cory Willard and some of his students discuss their experience in English 317: Literature and the Environment, which took place in western Nebraska in the summer of 2019. (Note: This…

In this episode, Michael Page continues his interview with celebrated author and scholar James Gunn beginning with his recollections about Robert Heinlein. 

In this Episode, Michael Page sits down with James Gunn, who, at age 96, continues to be a publishing author of Science Fiction as well as a leading scholar in that field. Gunn discusses his…

In this episode, students, staff, and faculty continue their discussion about their work on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, a scholarly edition and digital archive.

In this episode, students, staff, and faculty discuss their work on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, a scholarly edition and digital archive.

In this episode, members of the English Student Advisory Board discuss life, the universe, and everything.  

Members of UNL's Slam Poetry team continue their conversation from Episode 5.

Dr. Laura White, Professor of English, has written the libretto for the new opera, The Gambler's Son, which premiers in Lincoln on November 15, 2019. In this episode, she discusses converting the…

In this episode, four members of UNL’s Slam Poetry Team – Bianca Swift, Celie Knudsen, Celine Haynes, and Jack Buchanan – sit down to discuss their writing process, how they perform their work, and…

In this episode, three women of color—Linda Garcia Merchant, Jamaica Baldwin, and Claire Jimenez—share creative work and offer context for that work before engaging in a frank conversation about…

In this episode, Professor Matt Cohen talks with poet, digital humanitarian, and English undergraduate extraordinaire Bianca Swift.

Jennine Capó Crucet discusses her recently published collection of essays, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, with her colleague and fellow author Hope Wabuke. They discuss…

Chigozie Obioma's most recent novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, is a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes awarded to books written in the English language. In this…