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| Alan Nadel, professor of literature and film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will be the guest speaker in LSU's next Chancellor's Distinguished Speaker Series. Using the movie "The Fugitive" and the Rodney King tapes, Nadel will examine the idea that public space in America is tacitly assumed to be "white." His topic is "The Fugitive (the movie), the Fugitive Slave and Rodney King." He will speak at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 in A.P. Tureaud Hall on the LSU campus. Nadel, who holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, is the author of several books and articles on American literature, film and culture. His first book, Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (University of Iowa Press, 1988), remains one of the leading books on Ralph Ellison. His second book, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age (Duke University Press, 1995), deals with the relationship between postmodernism and the cold war, and his most recent book, Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America (Rutgers University Press, 1997), looks at the relationship between Reaganism and the films of the 1980s. Nadel is also the editor of May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson (Rutgers University Press, 1994). His essay on Alice Walker won the best essay prize from Modern Fiction Studies in 1988, and his essay on Cecil B. deMille's The Ten Commandments won the best essay prize from PMLA in 1993. Prior to coming to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, he taught at Purdue University where he won three awards for excellence in teaching; in 1995 he was a visiting professor at Emory University. He is a former president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and is serving his second three-year term as New York State delegate to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association. He has served on the advisory board of Modern Fiction Studies and is on the editorial boards of three journals: Narrative, College Literature and Contemporary Literature. His poetry has appeared in several journals including Paris Review, Georgia Review, Partisan Review, New England Review and Shenandoah. The LSU Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship Series works to enhance the development of the university community while showcasing LSU programs, faculty and students to researchers around the world. Speakers are nominated by LSU faculty members, recommended by a faculty committee and selected by the LSU Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies. |
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