"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 2025 Schedule | Spring 2025 Undergraduate Booklet | Spring 2025 Graduate Booklet |
Spring 2025 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 4/805E: Modern Fiction
Guy Reynolds
ENGL 4/845N: Native American Literature
Tom Gannon
ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Hope Wabuke
ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH
Stephen Ramsay
ENGL 918: Resistance & Representation in Nineteeth-Century Global Voices
Adrian Wisnicki
ENGL 932: American Authors <1900. Black Vistas: Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption
Ken Price
ENGL 986: Approaches to English Studies: Editing Creative Work
Timothy Schaffert
ENGL 995: Teaching Literature: Teaching Literature Across Genre and Period
Laura White
ENGL 875A: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Shari Stenberg
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
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 852: Fiction Writing
Joy Castro
ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Marco Abel
ENGL 882: Literacy 7 Community Issues
Rachael Shah
ENGL 892: Bodies Studies Seminar
Peter Capuano
ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice
Mavis Beckson
ENGL 963: Gender   European Imperialism in the Americas
Julia Schleck
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, Poetry
TBA
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