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
| December 9 - 14 (Mon. - Sat.) | Last week of classes** |
| December 14 (Sat.) | Last day of classes |
| December 16 - 20 (Mon. - Fri.) | Fall Semester Final Exams - Final Exams Information |
| December 20 (Fri.) | Fall Semester Graduate Commencement and Doctoral Hooding Ceremony |
| December 21 (Sat.) | Fall Semester Undergraduate Commencement |
| December 23 (Mon.) 2019 - January 1 (Wed.) 2020 | Holiday Closedown (UNL offices closed) |
Table of Contents
- English 364: 18th-Century British Literature Spring 2020
- SUMMER 2020: Classic Horror Films during Pre-Session in English 439/839
- Comm 400: Rhetorical Theory
- Laurus Call for Submissions
- Collision Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions
- Lincoln Public Schools Gifted Students Mentorship
- Join The Artifice Writing Group
- The 2020 A Public Space Editorial Fellowships
Courses to Check Out
English 364: 18th-Century British Literature Spring 2020
Talk about a period with a bum rap! People sometimes say the 18th century was dull and boring. FAR FROM IT! It was witty, bawdy, mad for science, committed to social transformation and world-changing in its politics. It pretty much invented the modern world. This century produced three revolutions, each of which changed the world. We will look at the end of the old world and the birth of the new through the dynamic and interdisciplinary lens of literature, visual arts, music, and contemporary culture. During this period, literature and the arts "went public" as authors and artists appealed to a broad public audience, and the works that resulted were often wildly entertaining. Even if they were also serious - even revolutionary. You do NOT need to be an expert in history, literature, or anything else. We will think about the arts, the sciences, technology, and human behavior generally, trying to make sense of how things change, and why. Sampling these diverse materials will give us a taste of the culture that gave rise to what we think of as "the modern world."
The class will be mostly discussion based, with occasional quizzes, two working papers, a research portfolio on a subject of your choice, and a final exam.
The class will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:30 - 11:20
For more info contact Professor Behrendt at sbehrendt1@unl.edu or at Andrews 319
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.
Comm 400: Rhetorical Theory
Department of English Announcements and Events
No Name Reading
The reading series is presented in collaboration with Indigo Bridge Books, a local bookstore Indigo Bridge representing a community that reaches past the divisions of race & ethnicities, socioeconomic class, political opinions, religious beliefs, national borders, languages, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a parent, age, ability, physical appearance, education, activist, immigration, or victim status.
Additional Public Info Here
- December 6, 6:30 - 8:00pm; Indigo Bridge Books, 701 P Street, Suite 102, Lincoln.
University Announcements and Events
LGBTQA+ Resource Center End of Semester Celebration
Come celebrate the successes of the semester with the LGBTQA+ Resource Center!
- December 13, 10:00am - 3:00pm; LGBTQA+ Resource Center, Nebraska Union
Internships, Jobs, and Professional Development
Laurus Call for Submissions
Laurus encourages undergraduate students to submit their visual art, fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction for our Spring 2020 issue now through Wednesday, January 18, 2020. To submit your work, go to laurusmagazine.submittable.com, and follow the submission guidelines. You must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to have your work included in Laurus.
Collision Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions
Poetry Editor of Collision Literary Magazine at the University of Pittsburgh. Collision is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art, and we welcome your students to submit! We're also looking for submissions for our fall zine, Border Crossing, which will feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry and black-and-white visual art revolving around international and intercultural experiences. By submitting to either the annual magazine or the themed zine, students will be considered for our writing contests, wherein they could win monetary prizes.
Submissions for the annual magazine close Friday, Feb. 21, but we read on a rolling basis. Zine submissions close Friday, Oct. 25. You can find more information about the magazine and our submission guidelines at https://www.collision.pitt.edu. If you have any questions, please contact collision.pitt@gmail.com.
Lincoln Public Schools Gifted Students Mentorship
Lincoln Public Schools is seeking Juniors, Seniors, or Graduates to mentor students up to one hour per day in the following areas:
- English and Language Arts
- Mathematics
- World Languages
- History/ Social Studies
- Visual Arts
The mentorship pays $18.91 per hour for working with the students, as well as mileage reimbursement for travel between schools for those assigned at multiple LPS locations.
The mentorship provides a wealth of experiences to discuss in interviews for those considering the job market after graduation.
The following requirements need to be met in order to be considered for the program:
- Overall GPA of 3.0 or above
- 15 college course hours in the subject to be mentored
- A minimum of 3.5 GPA in these courses
For those interested in applying, the application can be found here.
Join The Artifice Writing Group
The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, Anime, Comics, Literature, Games, and Arts. It is collaboratively built and maintained by the writers. The platform has an established audience of millions. See here
Instead of recycling the same entertainment news stories or publishing commonplace editorials, The Artifice focus on unique topics that are intellectually stimulating and meaningful.
We are currently expanding and we would like to provide an opportunity for your students, staff, and faculty to join our team of writers.
Our writers range from undergraduates to emeritus professors.
If you are interested in joining the team, see here.
The 2020 A Public Space Editorial Fellowships
A Public Space is thrilled to announce a new Fellowship program for aspiring editors. The aim of the Editorial Fellowship program is to create a framework for the art of editing, bridging tradition and evolution. It is our hope to support a cadre of editors who will offer a more diverse publishing community—culturally, aesthetically, economically.
This is a nine-month program, from March 15 through December 15. Fellows will be expected to be at A Public Space’s office in downtown Brooklyn fifteen hours per week. They will participate in all aspects of our publishing programs, including evaluation, curation, editing, production, marketing, publicity, circulation, and distribution. They will work closely with the senior editorial staff on both the magazine and book imprint; and will have the opportunity to meet leading figures in the publishing community. Fellows will also be invited to attend a series of Master Classes with editors as part of A Public Space’s academy. Applications are now open and will be accepted through January 15.
$10,000 stipend, to be paid bi-weekly
For More Info See Here.
Literary News
How Journalism Made a Poet Out of Me
"One fateful night in Dallas, a poet came to read. I had never heard of her. It was Elizabeth Bishop. I was late. The auditorium was packed. I stood at the back, in the doorway, the only place left. I was grateful I didn’t have to interview anyone. I had quit journalism and was working as a waitress, trying to write poetry. At the time, I was writing a poetry stumbling somewhere between surrealism and the haunting, lilting lyric of the country western music I had been raised to."
Read more of Gillian Conoley's journey toward poetry.
Film News
Raising Kael: On Pauline Kael’s Controversial Criticism of Citizen Kane
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In early 1971 Pauline Kael published a pair of essays in the New Yorker about Citizen Kane, on the 30th anniversary of that film’s creation. By this time Kane was widely considered the greatest film ever made: It had risen to the top of Sight and Sound magazine’s authoritative once-a-decade poll of film critics and scholars in 1962, and would keep its place in 1972—and then in 1982, 1992, and 2002, its half-century run ending in 2012 when Hitchcock’s Vertigo nipped in ahead of it (wrongly).
Almost immediately Kael’s essays became enormously controversial, but not because she contested the general estimation of the film; indeed, she agreed that it is very great. But one of the central claims of her essays is that, while Orson Welles did indeed direct the film, he wrote almost none of it. Instead, it was written by Herman Mankiewicz, who had been credited merely as co-author."
Read Alan Jacob's full essay on Lit Hub.
Other Announcements
The World’s Top Economists Just Made the Case for Why We Still Need English Majors
Why do we still need English majors? Read more to find out!
In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure
It's true that it might take a little more time for English majors to make more in terms of salary, but over time, we even out - and may even do better than - STEM and business majors.