Hours
The English Advising Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Appointments
You can use this link to make an appointment with Dr. Lacey: https://unlincoln.force.com/SSH/0058W00000BUU9I
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Reminders
Thru Fri, Apr 21: All course withdrawals noted with grade of “W” on academic record.
Mon, May 7 thru Fri, May 12: Last week of classes.
Mon, May 15 thru Fri, May 19: Finals Week.
Sat, May 20: Graduation!
Table of Contents
- Poetry Reading with Kate Gaskin, Katie Henson, and Katie Marya
- Humanities on the Edge Presents: Christopher Newfield & Julia Schleck
- Humanities on the Edge Presents: Austin McCoy
- Taymour Soomro, author of OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE
- Madagascar
- Applying to Law Schools 101
- Gender Resilience, Integration, and Transformation
- Fire & Ice Drag Show
- Denim Day 2023
- Study at Sheldon
- Jagged Little Pill
- Contemporary African Poetry: Gender at the Intersections of the National & Global
- RHA Movie Series: WALL-E
- The Beauty of the Trans Body: Building a World to Feel Safe In
- Brittney Griner’s memoir will be a spring 2024 title.
- The best flowers in literature.
- How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue
- How Ru Paul Created a Castle for Queer Beauty
- Films at the Ross
- Elijah Wood ‘Surprised’ by New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies: I Hope They’re Made With ‘Reverence’ for Tolkien and Not Just to ‘Make a Lot of Money’
- Riley Keough and Marcus Mumford Are Emmy Contenders With Three Original Song Submissions From ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’
- Tim McGraw Launches Down Home Media Company to Tell ‘Authentic, Inspiring Stories’
Department of English Announcements and Events
Poetry Reading with Kate Gaskin, Katie Henson, and Katie Marya
Date: Apr. 15, 2023
Time: 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Larksong Writers Place (1600 N Cotner Blvd)
Humanities on the Edge Presents: Christopher Newfield & Julia Schleck
Date: Apr. 20, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art: Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
“Dirty Knowledge and Literary Knowledge?: After the Crisis of Humanities Research”
Julia Schleck is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Humanities on the Edge Presents: Austin McCoy
Date: Apr. 27, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art: Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
“Organizing the Revolution: Workers’ Visions of Economic Democracy in the US After the 1960s”
Dr. McCoy is also public scholar, utilizing history to comment on contemporary issues related to politics and culture in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, Nursing Clio, Black Perspectives, CNN, and Truthout.
At WVU, Dr. McCoy teaches a variety of courses in U.S., African American, and labor history, and works with graduate students who focus on studying the experiences of African Americans, organized labor, race, politics, and social movements.
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“Organizing the Revolution: Workers’ Visions of Economic Democracy in the US After the 1960s”
In the last several years, many politicians and pundits have talked much about “saving democracy” with the resurgence of authoritarianism in U.S. politics. However, what does it mean to save democracy within a political system that exists to support authoritarian, corporate, and police power? My lecture will draw from research on the labor movement and the post-New Left in the 1970s to consider the ways in which organized labor has articulated, and struggled politically for, expansive visions of democracy in response to corporate power and state violence. I will also consider how these past visions of social transformation might inspire workers and the labor movement today.
https://www.unl.edu/english/humanities-on-the-edge
Taymour Soomro, author of OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE
Date: Apr. 28, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm
Francie & Finch Bookshop (130 S 13th St)
—Yiyun Li, author of WHERE REASONS END AND MUST I GO
Taymour Soomro’s OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE is a charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire. This tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a country’s troubled history is told with uncommon urgency and beauty.
Soomro will also discuss the anthology he co-edited: LETTERS TO A WRITER OF COLOR, a vital and fascinating new collection that examines the craft of writing through the lens of race and culture and asks us to think differently about how we read non-white, non-Western stories.
Soomro visits UNL as part of the Creative Writing Program of the English Department, and “50 Years of LGBTQ Studies at UNL.” He was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He read law at Cambridge University and Stanford Law School. He has worked as a corporate solicitor in London and Milan, a lecturer at a university in Karachi, an agricultural estate manager in rural Sindh and a publicist for a luxury fashion brand in London. His short story “Philosophy of the Foot” appeared in The New Yorker in January 2019.
University Announcements and Events
Madagascar
Date: Apr. 15, 2023
Time: 3:00 pm; 7:30 pm
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Performances: 4/15/2023 at 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM
https://www.liedcenter.org/event/madagascar
Applying to Law Schools 101
Date: Apr. 18, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Love Library South, Room 221
Gender Resilience, Integration, and Transformation
Date: Apr. 20, 2023
Time: 8:30 am–5:00 pm
Nebraska Union
Fire & Ice Drag Show
Date: Apr. 21, 2023
Time: 8:00 pm
Nebraska Union, Centennial Room
There is no entry fee to this event, yet attendees are asked to bring a nonperishable food item or personal hygiene product to be donated to Husker Pantry. Some requested items are: shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, chips, flour, sugar, cooking oil, and beans.
Tipping performers is greatly appreciated, though not required. All tip monies benefit Spectrum’s Leadership Conference Fund and the UNL LGBTQA+ Center’s Student Support Fund.
Learn more about Spectrum UNL: https://unl.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/spectrum-unl
Denim Day 2023
Date: Apr. 26, 2023
Time: 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Nebraska Union Plaza
Why denim? Per DenimDay.org, the international campaign began in 1999 after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices stated that since the victim was wearing tight jeans, she must have helped remove them, thereby implying consent. Women in the Italian Parliament came to work the next day wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim/survivor.
Stop by our booth to learn how you can get involved in violence prevention on campus, and show your support of survivors by participating in the creation of a denim art display.
Study at Sheldon
Date: Apr. 26, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art
Jagged Little Pill
Date: Apr. 25-30, 2023
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Joy, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, LIFE—everything we’ve been waiting to see in a Broadway show— is here in the exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music.
Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin, upcoming 1776) with a Tony-winning book by Diablo Cody (Juno) and Grammy-winning score, this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect American family “vaults the audience to its collective feet” (The Guardian). “Redemptive, rousing and real, JAGGED LITTLE PILL stands alongside the original musicals that have sustained the best hopes of Broadway.” (The New York Times)
You live, you learn, you remember what it’s like to feel truly human… at JAGGED LITTLE PILL.
Contemporary African Poetry: Gender at the Intersections of the National & Global
Date: Apr. 28, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art
The discussion will be followed by a catered reception and a poetry reading.
RHA Movie Series: WALL-E
Date: Apr. 28, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Willa Cather Dining Complex, Red Cloud Room
Literary News
The Beauty of the Trans Body: Building a World to Feel Safe In
Rafael Frumkin on the Legacy—and Bravery—of Queer Elders
By Rafael Frumkin | April 3, 2023
https://lithub.com/the-beauty-of-the-trans-body-building-a-world-to-feel-safe-in/
Brittney Griner’s memoir will be a spring 2024 title.
By Janet Manley | April 11, 2023
https://lithub.com/brittney-griners-memoir-will-be-a-spring-2024-title/
The best flowers in literature.
By Emily Temple | April 11, 2023
How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue
Selene Ross on Harnessing the Power of Sound to Write Fiction
By Selene Ross | April 13, 2023
https://lithub.com/how-making-audio-erotica-helped-me-write-better-dialogue/
How Ru Paul Created a Castle for Queer Beauty
Sasha Velour on Disguises, Reveals, and Reality TV
By Sasha Velour | April 14, 2023
https://lithub.com/how-ru-paul-created-a-castle-for-queer-beauty/
Film News
Elijah Wood ‘Surprised’ by New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies: I Hope They’re Made With ‘Reverence’ for Tolkien and Not Just to ‘Make a Lot of Money’
By Zack Sharf | April 14, 2023
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/elijah-wood-new-lord-of-the-rings-movies-surprised-1235583480/
Riley Keough and Marcus Mumford Are Emmy Contenders With Three Original Song Submissions From ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’
By Clayton Davis | April 13, 2023
https://variety.com/2023/awards/awards/daisy-jones-emmys-original-song-emmys-submission-1235578270/
Tim McGraw Launches Down Home Media Company to Tell ‘Authentic, Inspiring Stories’
By Sharon Knolle | April 13, 2023
https://www.thewrap.com/tim-mcgraw-launches-down-home-media-company/