Sponsored by the Department of English and the Bates Learning Associates Program, this event is open to the public at no cost.

Nadel’s lecture, titled “Wand Me!”: Assuming the (Subject) Position of the Compliant Body in the Age of Terror, presents research related to Nadel’s current book-in-progress, Unintelligent Design, or How Bush Knew.

Nadel is the William T. Bryan Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches courses in post-WWII American literature and culture, film and media studies, American studies and critical race studies. He is the author of numerous articles, essays and books, including Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (University Press of Kansas, 2005), Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan’s America (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (University of Iowa Press, 1991).