Longwood's John Miller will speak Wednesday, Nov. 18 on NASCAR's role in American culture

John Miller, assistant professor of early American literature at Longwood University, will speak Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in Longwood's Chichester Science Center G12 on "Becoming a Citizen of NASCAR Nation: Toyota, Stock Car Racing, and American Culture in an Era of Globalization."

The topic of the Faculty Colloquium lecture evolved from a collection of essays on motorsports that Miller is co-editing. He and Mark Howell, professor of communications at Northwestern Michigan College, are co-editing a collection titled American Speed: Motorsports and American Culture, which is being revised and which they hope to publish. Miller is a longtime racing fan whose master's thesis, at Auburn University, was titled "NASCAR and its Southern Simulacrum."

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