Sections, day/time, instructor, and notes below.
| WMNS/ENGL 801K: LGBTQ Drama and Popular Culture | Section 1 | TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Timothy Schaffert | Course description below. |
| PSYC/WMNS 821: Psychology of Gender | Section 1 | MWF 10:30 - 11:20 a.m. | Kathryn Holland | See PSYC 421-001 |
| CYAF 846: Addictions and Families | T 2:00 - 4:50 p.m. | Gilbert Parra | See CYAF 446 | |
| PSYC/EDPS/CYAF/SOCI 871: Human Sexuality and Society | Section 1 | TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. | Rosemary Esseks | See PSYC 471-001 |
| Section 700 | Does not meet | Staff | Online; See PSYC 471-700 | |
| WMNS 885: Feminist Theories, Feminists' Perspectives Please email Professor Rose Holz to request a permission code to enroll. | Section 1 | W 2:30 - 5:10 p.m. | Rosemarie Holz | See WMNS 485-001 |
| WMNS 896: Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies | Section 1 | Does not meet | Staff | Independent Study |
| WMNS 897: Internship in Women's and Gender Studies | Section 1 | Does not meet | Staff | Field studies |
| ENGL 914: Seminar: Women Writers: Willa Cather in Context | Section 1 | W 2:00 - 4:50 p.m. | Melissa Homestead | Course description below. |
WMNS/ENGL 401K/801K: LGBTQ Drama and Pop Culture
Timothy Schaffert
In our study of the intersection between theater and popular culture, we’ll focus especially on adaptations: stage productions adapted to film, novels adapted to stage productions, independent theater adapted into Broadway spectacles, etc. Among our discussions: We’ll follow the path of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” from a novel by Argentine author Manuel Puig, to an Oscar-nominated film, to a Tony-winning musical; we’ll look at Sarah Schulman’s “Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America,” in which she makes the case that the musical “Rent” lifted material from her novel “People in Trouble”; we’ll explore the dynamics of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” with our guest, novelist and producer Eric Schnall, who won a Tony for taking the small off-Broadway production to Broadway (and we’ll look at Schnall’s own novel, “I Make Envy on Your Disco”).
Timothy Schaffert
Adele Hall Professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies
Director of Creative Writing
Author of The Perfume Thief (Knopf Doubleday), a Penguin Random House International "One World, One Book" selection
+ The Titanic Survivors Book Club, forthcoming in April 2024
Co-editor, ZERO STREET, the LGBTQ+ fiction series at University of Nebraska Press
ENGL 914: Seminar: Women Writers: Willa Cather in Context
Melissa Homestead
This seminar will be keyed to the theme of the next Willa Cather International Seminar in June 2025, which has not yet been announced. The seminar will put Cather in context with other writers and with the contexts and methodological questions raised by the conference theme. The Cather Project has available extra funding to cover the cost of attendance at the WCIS for interested students taking this graduate seminar. Archives and Special Collections at UNL also has matchless resources for supporting research on Cather.