Hours
The English Advising Office is closed for the remainder of the semester. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Lacey, do so through MyPlan in Canvas
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.
Walk-in Hours
No appointment necessaryThere will be no physical walk in hours this semester. Instead, Dr. Lacey will be doing Zoom drop-in hours at the following days and times:
- Wednesdays, 1-3pm
- Fridays, 10am-12pm
To drop in, use this link to connect and you'll be placed into a waiting room while Andrea or Rebecca let her know you're there.
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Reminders
| October 2 (Fri.) | Last day to change a full-length Regular Academic Session course registration to or from “Pass/No Pass” |
Table of Contents
- Law School Essay Workshop - Via Zoom
- Study Abroad 101
- Pride in the Workplace
- REACH Session for Students
- Say Their Names: Centering Black Women Activists in the Struggle for Justice
- Missouri Review is Open for Submissions
- Collision Literary Magazine is Accepting Submissions
- Nebraska Writers Collective Internship
University Announcements and Events
Law School Essay Workshop - Via Zoom
This workshop will cover what law schools are looking for in personal statements and provide you with writing exercises to begin the process of developing your individual story in a strong and compelling manner. Co-presented with the UNL Writing Center.
Live via Zoom
- September 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Study Abroad 101
Interested in going abroad but don't know where to start? Attend a Huskers Abroad 101 session to take the first step toward going abroad!
This session will cover researching program options, selecting a program, funding and the timeline for the process.
Virtual sessions are held Tuesdays at 10:30am, Wednesdays at 4:30pm, and Thursdays at 2:00pm CT.
Register here
Pride in the Workplace
Connect and join at: go.unl.edu/prideintheworkplace
Password: pride
Sponsored by Union Pacific & UNL LGBTQA+ Center, Career Services, and Chancellor’s Commission on Gender & Sexual Identity.
- October 5, 5:00pm - 6:00pm; Via Zoom
REACH Session for Students
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
Say Their Names: Centering Black Women Activists in the Struggle for Justice
rs. Jeannette Jones and Zakiya Luna will examine the often-overlooked activism and leadership of women of color in the United States. This dialogue and discussion will allow us to hear from two outstanding scholars and then to ask questions and discuss together.
Dr. Jeannette Jones (UNL, History & Ethnic Studies) will spotlight women’s activism in Black Lives Matter. Her talk will focus on the Black women, queer, and transgender people, who are central to creating and leading resistance to violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. She will also address the need for movements like #SayHerName to foreground that women and girls are victims of police brutality.
Dr. Zakiya Luna (University of CA - Santa Barbara, Sociology) will focus on activism in the reproductive justice movement. Her talk will foreground the history and successes of SisterSong who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. SisterSong is the largest national multi-ethnic Reproductive Justice collective, whose membership includes and represents Indigenous, African American, Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian and Pacific Islander, and Latina women and LGBTQ people.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Women’s & Gender Studies Program is inviting you to Say Their Names: Centering Black Women Activists in the Struggle for Justice
- October 12, 3:30pm; via Zoom
Internships, Jobs, and Professional Development
Missouri Review is Open for Submissions
The Missouri Review has oppened their admissisons to writers and poets who are looking to have their work published in their 30th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, which awards $5000 each to winners in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. they will be open for submissions until October 1st, and welcome writers of all levels to submit.
In addition to $5000, winners in each genre will have their winning piece published in our spring issue, and will be honored with a reading in spring of 2021. All submissions are considered for publication and runners-up and finalists for the prize are often published in the Missouri Review or, in the case of poetry, as part of our Poem of the Week online feature.
"We pride ourselves on focusing on the quality of the writing first and foremost—our allegiance is to finding and supporting strong work. Past winners have ranged from emerging writers to ones with established writing careers. We are particularly excited to let the writers at University of Nebraska, Lincoln know about this opportunity, in hopes that we may see some of their work." - Bailey Boyd, Contest Editor
Submissions will be accepted online or by mail (postmark deadline is October 1) and the winners will be announced in January of 2021.
For the second year, they are offering two options for entry fees. $25 is the standard entry fee, which includes a 1-year digital subscription to TMR and Strange Encounters: Stories from the Missouri Review. $30 is the All Access option, which includes the same goodies as the standard option, plus full access to our ten-year archive, complete with print and audio versions of TMR.
For more information about the literary magaize or how to submit see here.
Collision Literary Magazine is Accepting Submissions
The Collision Literary Magazine has been established since 2001 and is now accepting sumbissions from undergraduate students. They accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Submissions for the anual magainze will be accepted until Friday, February 19th. For more information regarding submission guidelines or to learn more about Collison visit here.
For any questions that you may have, you can contact the magazine staff at this email: collision.pitt@gmail.com
Nebraska Writers Collective Internship
Literary News
How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human
"The American literary ghosts I love most aren't psychological shadows—they are solid enough to slam doors. But they're not horror movie monsters either. They're conflicted beings with messages more complicated than the expected "avenge me" spiel; they want us to think about what it means to be a human in the world."
Read more from Amy Shearn at Lit Hub.
Five Essential Black Comics
It’s National Comic Book Day and what better way to celebrate than to get into these groundbreaking comics by Black creators. Read & watch more at The Root!
Film News
The Legacy of The Shining in Contemporary Cinema
"Much like Alfred Hitchcock with Psycho (1960), Stanley Kubrick sought, with The Shining (1980), to conduct an experiment in cinematic fear. While neither of the films can be reduced to it, this experimental dimension, in both cases, resulted in a landmark of the horror genre and film history, that was also commercially viable, and, in the years since, has become a modern classic. If only from a strictly pragmatic perspective, such recipe for success must necessarily have appealed to, when it didn’t cause outright admiration, Kubrick’s peers—who would not hesitate to try and replicate the successful formula, or pay homage to it." Read more from Jeremi Szaniawski from Senses of Cinema's special issue on the 40th anniversary of The Shining.