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Melissa Homestead

Homestead to discuss new edition of Cather's 'The Professor's House'

February 17, 2026

Gabi Kirilloff, a UNL PhD alumni and now an assistant professor of Englishat Washingon University in St. Louis, leads a workshop session on digitally examining patterns in literature.

NEH institute puts scholars on Cather's literary path

August 2, 2023

Society & Culture

Willa Cather posing near a rock while on campus in an undated photo.

Beyond bronze: Cather's life, work shared through multimedia

June 7, 2023

Society & Culture

Willa Cather posing near a rock while on campus in an undated photo.

Cather, famed author, Nebraska alumna, featured in Statuary Hall

June 5, 2023

Society & Culture

Cather manuscript

New initiative will make Cather's manuscripts available online

November 14, 2022

Society & Culture

The rising sun appears to burn a hole through the flag of Cornhusker Marching Band color guard member Jaedynn Shively, a sophomore from Lincoln.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Oct. 14

October 14, 2022

Letters from Willa Cather

Publication of Cather’s correspondence nearly complete

October 12, 2022

Starting Aug. 7, test results will be available via the university's online COVID-19 testing portal. The Safer Community app will no longer be used.

Three projects net nearly $500K from NEH

August 17, 2022

Society & Culture

From the founding of the institution, Willa Cather's time on campus (pictured), and more recent moments, a new online timeline is offering an interactive tour through the history of the University of Nebraska.

Cather Project, publication celebration is April 28

April 15, 2022

Homestead unveils central role of Cather’s life partner

April 1, 2021

Society & Culture

Melissa Homestead, author of "The Only Wonderful Things," is photographed in front of the Harris House in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Willa Cather and Edith Lewis met.

Forthcoming book centers Willa Cather's partnership with Edith Lewis

March 22, 2021

Society & Culture

Charles E. Cather, an heir to his aunt Willa Cather, left an estate gift to the University of Nebraska in 2011 that included manuscripts, letters, medals and inscribed first editions of her work.

Cather's handwritten musings become part of the internet age

January 8, 2018

Science & Technology