Welcome to the Department of English!
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.
The Aesthetics of British Romanticism, Then and Today
Professor Stephen Behrendt is preparing to offer an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in the summer of 2010, on the subject of British Romanticism and aesthetics. The seminar will run for five weeks, from June 7, 2010 through July 9, 2010. It is open to a maximum of sixteen college and university teachers from around the country, who will work and study here at UNL under Dr. Behrendt's general guidance. A detailed description is available on his website.
Department of English
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Announcing a New Course!
In the Spring of 2010, Professor Tom Lynch will be teaching English 317: Literature and Environment. For additional information about this course read the flier and description. Note that this course is not listed in the schedule of classes.
Breaking News
In April 2010, Milkweed Editions will publish PhD candidate Arra Lynn Ross’ debut poetry book Seedlip and Sweet Apple, which traces the existence of Ann Lee, “morning star” of Shakers. Of the book, poet Bruce Bond comments: "'Never throw away the least crumb,' writes Arra Ross, 'of that which is prepared for you to eat.' So it is with the poet here, whose sensuous care and tireless attentions find sustenance in the small, the broken, the low and unassuming. The result is pure devotion, sacramental in its appetite, lucid and precise. Rarely is a first book so thorough in the ways that it devours and so gives flesh to its given world, as if utterance were redemption, and 'breath—the flutter of a dove’s wings.'
In the fall of 2010 the University of Nebraska Press will publish PhD candidate Steve Edwards' memoir Breaking into the Backcountry as part of their Outdoor Lives Series. A chronicle of the half-year Steve spent alone in 2001 as caretaker of a 95-acre backcountry homestead in southwestern Oregon, the book depicts his adjustments to solitude and life without electricity, offers intimate glimpses of the natural world and reflects on the events of 9/11 from the point of view of someone in daily contact with wilderness. 
PhD candidate Dave Madden's The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and
Obsessive World of Taxidermy was sold to St. Martin's Press. The
nonfiction book, which he'll also file as his dissertation, takes a
close look at the relationship between animals and the humans who
painstakingly preserve them in life-like form. St. Martin's bought
World rights to the book, including a hardcover release in the U.S.
and the U.K. No release date has been set.Related Websites
N The Know with Wheeler Dixon
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Listen to Ted Kooser reading "So This Is Nebraska"
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