English

Overview

Program Details

We offer graduate course work in all listed areas of study. There are also opportunities for students to obtain a specialization in composition and rhetoric, creative writing, ethnic studies, Great Plains studies, literary and cultural studies, 19th century studies, and women's and gender studies. We also have certifications in Digital Humanities and the Teaching of Writing. This master degree in English is available at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

Diverse opportunities are available for professional development, including development of scholarly and teaching portfolios, participation in critical/literary study groups, a fiction and poetry reading series, and collaboration with faculty on research, teaching, and creative activities.

In addition, the department houses a number of prestigious journals and projects, including Prairie Schooner, one of the most respected literary journals in the nation, The Western American Literature Journal and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. We also have the Walt Whitman Archive, the Cather Project, the Nebraska Writing Project, the Nebraska Literacy Project, the Corvey Collection of 19th Century British Literature and the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Monograph Series. Graduate students regularly enrich their academic experience through work on these major departmental projects.