When:
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Where: University Hall, Hagstrum Room, UH 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Natasha O Dennison
(847) 491-3525
Group: American Studies Program
Category: Academic
Alan Nadel
English & American Studies, University of Kentucky
“Singin’ in the (HUAC) Rain: Job Security, Stardom, and the Abjection of Lina Lamott”
Before the talk, join us for a speacial graduate job workshop from 10:00am to 12:00pm on November 11 in the Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201. Light refreshments will be provided.
Alan Nadel is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Kentucky. His is concerned by twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and culture. In Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age (1995) he uses a wide range of documents such as movies by Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock but also issues of Playboy Magazine to highlight national narratives of containment. Nadel shows this issue to be crucial as containment operated around gender axes and was partially fueled by discourses around atomic power which lay at the heart of the American cultural agenda during the Cold War period.
reception to follow talk.