English Department

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its schedule and featured writers for the fall Visiting Writers Series.

David Lee, Utah’s first poet laureate, will deliver the second annual lecture of the William C. Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series.

The lecture will be held Monday, March 9 at 7 p.m. in Callen Conference Center, located in the lower level of the Smith-Curtis Administration Building.

Sarah Kelen, associate professor of English, has been awarded the NWU Scholar Award.

The award recognizes excellence in scholarly or creative contributions to an academic field.

A Nebraska Wesleyan University English professor has been awarded a Fulbright Specialists Grant to teach in India next fall.

Gerise Herndon, Professor of English, Director of the Gender Studies Program, and the University’s Fulbright Program Advisor, will spend six weeks at Banaras Hindu University where she will teach feminist theories, multiculturalism and identity politics.

Nebraska Wesleyan University’s English Department has recognized its students with department awards.

Boatright awards have been presented to the following students:

A celebration of life for longtime English professor Leon Satterfield have been scheduled for Saturday, June 18 at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Satterfield died Tuesday, April 12 of complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

A new Lincoln Public School will bear the name of former Nebraska Wesleyan University professor and Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn.

“The greatest way to learn is to teach,” says Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Meera Bhardwaj.