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The Department of English seeks to provide for the diverse needs of its students by offering them the opportunity to read widely, to understand and enjoy what they read, and to express themselves both orally and in writing with ease, force and clarity. Through the practice of writing and the study of language and literature, the department strives to stimulate humanistic learning and the capacity to respond rationally and imaginatively to literature and the life it reflects.
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Hilda Raz Wins the 2010 Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Literary Editing
Professor Hilda Raz, Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner in the Department of English is the recipient of the 2010 Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Literary Editing. This award is presented to someone who has labored to uphold the highest literary standards in a magazine or small press. It is given in honor of the late Stanley Lindberg, a well-known man of letters who brought The Georgia Review to national eminence. This is one of many honors that Professor Raz has received during her distinguished career. Professor Raz will retire from UNL and from the editorship of Prairie Schooner in August.
Ted Kooser Wins Hall-Kenyon Prize
Ted Kooser is the first recipient of the Hall-Kenyon Prize an award from the New Hampshire Writer's Project and Concord Monitor newspaper. The award was established in the name of New Hampshire poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon and comes with a $5,000 prize.
N-the Know with Jonis Agee
Learn what it takes to become a professional writer in this short N-the Know video clip of Adele Hall Professor, Jonis Agee.
Spring 2010 Arts & Sciences Honors Convocation
Pictured from left to right are:
- Jonis Agee Outstanding Research and Creativity Award
- Julia Schleck College Distinguished Teaching Award
- Laura White Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award
- Deborah Minter Hazel R. McClymont Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award
American Life in Poetry Partners with NY Times
Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry project will now be partnering with the New York Times to feature a new weekly "Poetry Pairing" series.
On Thursdays they will collaborate with the Poetry Foundation to feature a poem from its American Life in Poetry project alongside content from The Times that somehow echoes, extends or challenges the poem’s themes.
To learn more about the collaboration, and find ideas for using any week’s "pairing" for teaching and learning, visit here.
Ken Price Receives Two Substantial Grants for Work on the Civil War
Hillegass Professor of English, Ken Price, was awarded $86,000 to edit Walt Whitman's correspondence from the end of the Civil War through the Reconstruction period for the Walt Whitman Archive. This award is from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The NHPRC "promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture".
A second grant proposal titled "Civil War Washington" was awarded $220K by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is a joint project through the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and faculty in the English and History departments. Other faculty involved in this project are Susan Lawrence and Kenneth Winkle.
Breaking News
A renowned Willa Cather scholar has
made a substantial contribution to the
continuation of Cather studies at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
James Woodress, author of “Willa Cather: A Literary Life,” has donated more than $400,000 to the University of Nebraska Foundation, in support of a number of scholarly activities related to Cather’s legacy.
Read the complete article from Columns Magazine.
UNL’s Prairie Schooner is pleased to announce the selection of "Steal Small" by Caitlyn Horrocks for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. The story appeared in Prairie Schooner’s Summer, 2009 issue. The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is one of the most honored literary projects in America. The Pushcart Prize was named among the most influential projects in the history of American publishing by Publishers Weekly. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of its annual collections. It is very difficult to get a piece into one of the Pushcart Anthologies, and the Department of English and Prairie Schooner are pleased that Caitlyn Horrocks has won a spot in the 35th edition. We are also pleased that Prairie Schooner brought her work before an appreciative audience.
Livecoding Video by Stephen Ramsay
Click on this link: http://vimeo.com/9790850 to view a short film on "livecoding" presented as part of the Critical Code Studies Workshop, March 2010, by Stephen Ramsay, Associate Professor of English and faculty member in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. The video presents a "live reading" of a performance by composer Andrew Sorensen. It also talks about J. D. Salinger, the Rockettes, playing musical instruments, Lisp, the weather in Brisbane, and kettle drums.
Recent Books Published by Department Faculty
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Listen to Ted Kooser reading "So This Is Nebraska"
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