As an English major, you will not only study literature but also engage with history, popular culture, digital media and film. You'll explore texts imaginatively and study genre and craft in order to write novels, essays, poetry, memoirs or film scripts. You might engage with these texts for the purpose of social critique to discover the ways culture impacts your understanding of yourself and others so that you can motivate social and political change.

Join one of the most eclectic and diverse English departments in the Big Ten where you can select from a number of interdisciplinary areas like:

Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Ethnic Studies
Digital Humanities
American Literature
British Literature

We encourage you to match intellectual interests with a meaningful career path. Take our orientation course on "Career Planning for English Majors" as well as other worthwhile, career-focused courses in editing and publishing and digital humanities. Let us take you "from words to worlds," with career planning that goes beyond individual course assignments to include internships and other occupational experiences making your undergraduate experience enjoyable and you employable. Here are examples of recent graduates' employment:

Assistant Director of Business / NEBRASKA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Assistant Literary Agent / EMMA SWEENY AGENCY
Digital Archivist Photo Librarian / NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION
English Teacher / PEACE CORPS
Grant Writer / LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
Junior Coach / COLLEGE POSSIBLE
Managing Editorial Assistant / CROWN PUBLISHING, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Paralegal / BROWN IMMIGRATION LAW
Quality Analysis Associate / CARLON UNLIMITED
Teaching Artist / NEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE