Courses

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

—Wendy Rogers, UNL English major

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.

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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

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 4/878: Digital Archives and Editions
Stephen Ramsay

ENGL 852: Fiction Writing
Timothy Schaffert

ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Thomas Gannon

ENGL 875A: Rhetoric of Global Black Feminisms
Mavis Beckson

ENGL 892: Body Studies Seminar
Peter Capuano

ENGL 892: Theory of New Media
Stephen Ramsay

ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice
Stacey Waite

 

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, Fiction
Pascha Stevenson

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

 

Fall 2026 Projected Graduate Course

ENGL 4/845:  Native American Literature
Tom Gannon

ENGL 4/845K: From Cobalt to DH: Kongo at The "Heart of" IoT
Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri

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

ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Hope Wabuke

ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Marco Abel

ENGL 880: Writing Center Theory and Practice
Rachel Azima

ENGL 892: Special Topics- " Theory of New Media"
Stephen Ramsay

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing
Joy Castro

ENGL 957: Composition Theory & Practice
Thomas Gannon

ENGL 973: Collaborative Writing & Collaborative Pedagogies
Rachel Shah

ENGL 986: Publishing Blackness
Ken Price

 

One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills
Janel Simons

 

Spring 2027 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/810: Contemporary Novel & History
Guy Reynolds

ENGL 4/830: Green Shakespeare
Kelly Stage

ENGL 4/845B: Race, Law, & Literature
Greg Rutledge

ENGL 852: Fiction Writing
TBA

ENGL 857A: Composition & Rhetorical Theory
Debbie Minter

ENGL 4/865: Victorian Gothic
Laura White

ENGL 875A: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Shari Stenberg

ENGL 4/877: Topics in AI
Adrian Wisnicki

ENGL 892: Body Studies Seminar
Peter Capuano

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing Poetry
TBA

ENGL 965: Literature & the Birth of Psychology
Amanda Gailey

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