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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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Rhonda Garelick Directs Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium
The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium (IAS) is a
theme-based public performance series with artists in
residence, a free public lecture series to complement
the performances, and a seminar for UNL students
devoted to the season’s theme. Founded and directed by
Professor Rhonda Garelick, IAS places the performing arts in
a broader, more meaningful context, creates a diverse
audience for performances, and brings world-class
performance and scholarship to UNL and Lincoln.
This season showcases artists who stretch, alter or question the limits of the physical body through technology - including electronics, cinema, surgery, prosthetic limbs, biogenetics, and digital photography. IAS is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a generous grant from the Hixson Lied Endowment.
To learn more, visit: http://www.unl.edu/ias or view the brochure for a list of the dates and times of events.
Visiting Writer Dinty Moore
On Monday, September 13, visiting writer Dinty Moore will be giving a talk and reading in the Bailey Library. The talk will take place from 3:00-4:00 pm and the reading from 7:00-9:00 pm.
He is the editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and also author of two books of nonfiction, The Accidental Buddhist and The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, both from Algonquin Books, and a collection of stories, Toothpick Men. His new book, Crafting the Personal Essay, is just out from Writers Digest Books.
His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Arts & Letters, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Utne Reader, and numerous other journals and magazines.
He lives in Athens, Ohio, where he directs Ohio University's BA, MA, and PhD in Creative Writing program. Visit his web site for more information: http://www.dintywmoore.com/
Attention English Majors!
Welcome back! LAURUS, UNL's undergraduate literary magazine, is actively seeking submissions. All registered undergraduates are welcome to submit poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction or visual art online at http://www.laurusmagazine.com. We hope to produce both a Fall and a Spring issue this year, so we welcome submissions early in the semester and throughout the school year. The magazine is exclusively for undergraduate work and is edited by undergraduates.
If you know other students, who are not English majors, but are creative writers, please let them know that they can submit to LAURUS too. The editorial staff looks forward to considering your work.
For further details, again, check out the website at http://www.laurusmagazine.com.
Fiction PhD Candidate emily m. danforth Sells Novel to HarperCollins Publishers
Fiction PhD candidate emily m. danforth sold her first novel, currently titled Lucky Human, to HarperCollins Publishers in April. The deal was facilitated by Jessica Regel of the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. Ms. Regel was twice on the faculty of the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference. The novel--a coming of age narrative told in the voice of the orphaned teenager Cameron Post--highlights the eccentricities of a ranch town in eastern Montana and a conversion therapy boarding school in western Montana. Editor Alessandra Balzer of the HarperCollins imprint Balzer & Bray secured the novel in a pre-empt deal that was mentioned in Publisher's Weekly. Its publication is slated for Winter 2012 and it will be cross-marketed to both young adult and adult audiences. You can read more about emily, and the novel, at www.emdanforth.com
Images from the 2010 English Major Welcome Back Event
Students chat with the English advising office.
English students and faculty watch slam poets.
"Tupelo Springfield" (Stephen Buhler, John Schulze, and Jack Vespa) rock the house.
Poet Ben Wenzl performs.
Poet Beth Gillespie performs.
Poet Hannah Adams performing her poetry.
Poet Steven Hutchison performs.
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Stephen Buhler Awarded Aaron Douglas Professorship
Stephen Buhler has been awarded an Aaron Douglas Professorship in
Teaching Excellence, which recognizes a sustained record of quality
teaching and national visibility for instructional activities and
practices. Dr. Buhler's nomination materials cite his work with
performance-based approaches to literature in the classroom, his
mentoring of Honors Theses and other independent projects, his
outreach activities with the Folger Shakespeare Library and the
Flatwater Shakespeare Company, and his publications in several MLA
Approaches to Teaching volumes. Supporting letters describe Steve as
a magician (as well as a musician) and characterize his teaching as
transformative, empowering, and above all inspirational.
The Aaron Douglas Professorship honors Nebraska alumnus Douglas
(1899-1979), who was the first African American to earn a degree in
art from the University of Nebraska. A native of Topeka, Kansas,
Douglas earned a B.F.A. from the university in 1922. After
establishing himself as a pre-eminent figure in the Harlem Renaissance
movement, he founded the Department of Art at Fisk University in
Nashville, Tennessee, where he taught from 1937-1966. Douglas's art
helped to establish a new black aesthetic, combining traditional
African and African American images with prevailing Cubist and Art
Deco stylings.
Ramsay Helps Craft Tool That Turns Blogs into Books
When UNL associate professor of English Steve Ramsay signed up for a first-of-its-kind digital humanities workshop, he expected to learn something, but hadn't banked on a weeklong project changing the future of digital publishing.
Ramsay, a longtime software writer and fellow at UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, teamed with 11 other scholars from across the country to create a prototype tool that easily turns blog entries into books. Called Anthologize, the team's invention at the recent "One Week, One Tool" summer institute is turning heads across the blogosphere. Read the complete article at: http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/?view=story&id=450
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. Read the complete news release on this grant titled, UNL digital scholars net major grant for Civil War-era explorations.
"Frame By Frame" Discusses 3D Film
"Frame By Frame" is a new series of academic film reviews and discussion by Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In this episode, Winston Dixon discusses the history of 3D cinema and what the future holds for 3D films.
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.
Recent Books Published by Department Faculty
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Listen to Ted Kooser reading "So This Is Nebraska"
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