When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: The Wire Meets The Office

Carnegie Mellon University’s Humanities Center presents Alan Nadel, the William T. Bryan Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, for a talk that will examine what the NBC comedy “The Office” has with HBO’s “The Wire” – the idea that in a hierarchy, every employee rises to his or her level of incompetence.

For more information, visit
www.cmu.edu/hss/humanities-center/center-events/11-09-2012.html.

By: Shilo Rea

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