PhD Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: James Brunton, Saddiq Dzukogi, Hope Wabuke, Stacey Waite
Prose: Joy Castro, Timothy Schaffert, Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson
The program offers teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships.
Prairie Schooner, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska Press, Zero Street Fiction
The program accepts poetry and prose (fiction/nonfiction) in alternating years; the program is currently accepting applications in prose with a deadline of December 1. Students complete a book-length work of poetry or prose, along with critical analysis/scholarship.
Alumni have been offered research/editorial opportunities with Prairie Schooner/African Poetry Book Fund, the Cather Project, University of Nebraska Press, digital archives such as the Walt Whitman Archive and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Digital Archive, and other university/faculty projects and programs.
Karen Babine, Jamaica Baldwin, Chaun Ballard, Rachel Cochran, Emily Danforth, Jordan Farmer, Ángel García, Roxane Gay, Scott Guild, Julie Iromuanya, Claire Jiménez, Lee Martin, Katie Marya, Ilana Masad, Kristin Naca, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Maria Nazos, Uche Okonkwo, Ladette Randolph, Katie Schmid, Zachary Schomburg, SJ Sindu, Nick White, Ava Winter