She was great!

She is awesome! Goes at a slow pace, and doesn't expect us to know so much. She is appreciative of effort, so her grading is really fair I found. She is also really corky and up beat which makes the class more enjoyable. DEFINITELY 100% RECOMMENDED!

Fun, funny, nice, clear, and flippin awesome. She can read Old English, so, you know right?

Great professor. Helpful, clear, interesting

She is a great professor who got to know every one of her students. Her class was like a book club, where you discussed the texts you were reading and added your opinions. She is never negative, and she gives excellent feedback on your essays.

A very good lecturer. I didn't attend many lectures, however, I managed to do quite well because she was very clear and concise in assignments. Her test and assignments are very easy, alot of inclass group work. Go for her class!

Overall, pretty good professor! Just do what is required and expected of you and you'll be ok. If you want an A, then work really hard and use your head a lot! It's just like an English class should be, which is more than I can say for many members of this department.

McKenney is wonderful! She really wants her students to succeed and she is very willing to sit down with you and work out any issues you are having with the class or assignments. She expects a lot, so you have to work hard, but I believe that is know a class should be!

Love professor McKenney, she is passionate about her subject and made everything seem more interesting in class than it had been on paper. She is incredibly helpful with any questions or help researching that you may have. Learned a lot in her course.

Learning a new language is really difficult, McKenney tries her best to provide students with the resources to succeed. It's not an easy course, extensive studying and memorization is mandatory. This is primarily a grammar course if anything. She always asked for feedback to help improve our learning. Great prof!

Personally, I enjoyed her class. It was children's lit, so I think she took it easy on most of us since its an option course. Very friendly, her lectures felt like a book club of sorts. Fairly easy exams, marked fairly and pretty easy. I've heard she can be really tough sometimes.

Jenny is a great prof. Her lectures are very interesting and helpful. She is very helpful when it comes to learning some of the Middle English and not judgmental when you need a question answered. Get ready to read, but if you love literature then you will love this class.

Probably THE NICEST prof I have ever had. She is very friendly and always willing to help and answer any questions you have. Recommend.

Dr. McKenney is an amazing educator. You can tell she really loves what she does. Wants to hear the opinions of her students and encourages them to speak up. She can be a little bit of a tougher marker, but provides crystal-clear criteria for her assignments. She creates a very safe and supportive space for her students to share their opinions

No need for participation, just do easy assignments in seminars instead. Seminars are useless, however, you get an extra 2.5% if you do attend. Tests are very fair, she gave the midterm questions in advance and for the final it was open book. Gives lots of opportunities for students to do well and gives a reasonable amount of readings.

Mckenney is overall a great prof. The material for ENGL 340 is terrible, but that's not her fault.

Dr. McKenney's focus was Chick Literature which was a cool topic. Incredibly heavy on the reading but it isn't absolutely necessary to read everything. Participation marks, but talking once every two/three lectures is fine! Good discussion-based lectures. Very nice woman, and she expects the best from you. Major project and essay were intense.

Great teacher, she cares and is always willing to offer guidance during office hours. I became a better writer as a result of this class, and my grades steadily improved as the semester progressed. Final exam is a joke, if you attend every lecture you should get 100% on the MC section. As for essays, will give good advice about how to improve.

Jenny was an amazing first year English Prof. She knew that not all of us wanted to be English majors so she made sure the course was very easy. Lots of reading, but only short stories, lots of her classes were just discussing the stories and were not for marks. There were only 3 things really that you were graded on so they were worth a bit.

She took everyone's opinions into account during discussion and was very open-minded. Very respectful and overall a great prof!

Jenny has high expectations and while it is hard to do well in her class, it isn't impossible either. Her quizzes are hard and she expects you to remember all the little details. Classes are very laid back. Quite a fair marker with tests and essays. As long as you write a good essay, she's very relaxed with minor errors.

I had her when I took English during the spring semester, her class is fairly easy as long as you take notes and put a bit of effort into it. Both of the assignments and the final exam weren't difficult at all. I would definitely recommend that anyone that wants to take English to do it in spring and take it with her.

Professor McKenney was AMAZING. She was so incredibly kind and passionate about what she taught. I would definitely recommend her for ENGL 205 as she made sure everyone knew MLA format, deadlines, etc. and other things first years don't know. The essays were on really interesting topics and the discussions were engaging. Would take her class again!

Dr. Mckenney communicates the content with enthusiasm. For a class that is centred around poetry however, she puts a very good emphasis on minute details to remember. Come to class, take thorough notes about things that are unique to each of the poems you go over, and review for tests, and you should do fine. Other then that the classss get dull.

Mckenney is a great prof. She treats her students like actual people rather than just kids she had to deal with. I've had her for 3 classes now and I adore her. Shes helpful, funny and really knows her stuff.

Really grateful to this prof. Empathetic, understands that students are stressed, truly wants you to succeed. Go to office hours and don't skip class.

One of my favorite profs at UofC. Knowledgeable and caring, she wants her students to succeed and is very fair in her grading. Her classes are also a lot of fun and you can tell she tries to make assignments more interesting than the usual essays. She gave us lots of choice on what kind of projects we wanted to do and encouraged us to be creative

The reviews sell her short. She's a real kind prof who promotes really interesting discussions. I got a ton of feedback on my essays, more than I expected. She took the time to personally reply to every single introduction discussion board post. That kinda tells you everything. You do need to read and pay attention to write good essays, as usual.

She's genuinely very kind and cares a lot about her students. It's also very obvious that she LOVES the material that she's teaching and it makes the class much fun. Gal knows what she's talking about.

Such engaging lectures where every student seemed to have a chance to contribute. She creates a very welcoming class environment which I really appreciate, and she really respected the TA which was nice. Not much heavy reading and the novels were great. Might be more work than you anticipate, though

Very nice and led pretty good discussion-based lectures. A great reading list! Beware that the assignments are more creative rather than straightforward papers, so if you're not into that maybe steer clear.

I really appreciated the format for the papers that McKenney assigned. Rather than relying on large, cumbersome papers, she assigned a number of fairly short papers throughout the semester. Stay on top of the readings and pay attention during the lectures and you'll be fine.

ENGL 253.02 Poetry. Won't let me input the right #. Lot of reading from assigned book. Much harder than other junior english courses but grading for the essays was easy (which made up ~70% of our grade including an in person handwritten final exam component). Caring and kind professor very accommodating. First test (15% multiple choice) also easy.

Although she's a bit disorganized, I really liked this professor. Very friendly and accommodating so long as you're obviously putting in some effort into attending class and doing the assignments. Verdict from English majors I've talked to tends to be more positive than the reviews here suggest, so if you are one, strongly consider taking.

Although this class can be harsh on how she grades the papers, she does give good tips in class and in her feedback. This is an introductory course, which in my opinion is quite fairly done for what it covers and since it is in the English department. If you are not strong in English, definitely learn how the prof wants things written!

Really nice and is very knowledgeable. Although she can be a hard marker, once you get to know what her expectations are its not impossible to do well. And she is very helpful if you reach out with questions. I learned a lot and my writing really improved. However, beware her tests are really hard because they are specific.