"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.
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
| Course Schedules | Undergraduate Course Descriptions | Graduate Course Descriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 Schedule | Spring 2026 Undergraduate Course Description Booklet | Spring 2026 Graduate Course Description Booklet |
| Summer 2026 Schedule | Summer 2026 Course Description Booklet | Summer 2026 Course Description Booklet |
| Fall 2026 Schedule | Fall 2026 Undergraduate Course Description Booklet | Fall 2026 Graduate Course Description Booklet |
| Spring 2027 Schedule | Spring 2027 Undergraduate Course Description Booklet | Spring 2027 Graduate Course Description Booklet |
Spring 2026 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 4/802: American Poetry and Social Change
Ken Price
ENGL 4/805: Modernism: City and Region
Guy Reynolds
ENGL 4/854: Advanced Writing Projects
Stacey Waite
ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: Development and Design
Stephen Ramsay
ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Hope Wabuke
ENGL 857A: Comp & Rhetoric Theory
Deborah Minter
ENGL 882: Literacy Issues and Community
Rachael Shah
ENGL 892: Special Topics: Artificial Intelligence For The Humanities
Adrian Wisnicki
ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Fiction
Pascha Stevenson
ENGL 965: Nineteenth Century British Literature: The Gothic
Laura White
ENGL 971: Queer Theory
Gabrielle Owen
ENGL 973: Seminar in Literacy Studies
Mavis Beckson
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