Tulane University in popular culture

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Tulane University has been portrayed in several books, television shows, films and video games. Also, the campus and affiliated buildings have been used for several productions.

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Produced on campus

Documentary

Feature film

Radio

Television

Premiered on campus

Media references

Film

Literature

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

Books by Tulane alumni and faculty

  • Codex Maya by Steve Benzell, a Tulane graduate, is set in part on Tulane's uptown campus.
  • Testing Kate by Whitney Gaskell, a Tulane graduate, is a novel about the lives of first-year Tulane Law School students.
  • The Stagnant Pool by Nancy Maveety (a Tulane professor) is a novel based on life as a Tulane graduate student.
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by Tulane graduate John Kennedy Toole is set in New Orleans and features Ignatius J. Reilly, a Tulane graduate.

Books that cite or feature Tulane

  • Earth (novel) by David Brin features characters from Tulane.
  • A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole, main character Emma mentions being a Tulane graduate.
  • Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole, main character Holly is a math teacher at Gibson Hall on the Tulane uptown campus.
  • "Reb Kringle," a story from Nathan Englander's book For the Relief of Unbearable Urges , features an appearance by "the elf on winter break from Tulane."
  • The Pelican Brief by John Grisham is set on Tulane's campus and features a Tulane law student having an affair with a lecturer.
  • Black Sunday by Thomas Harris is set during a Super Bowl played at Tulane Stadium.
  • Fantasy Lover and Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon take place in New Orleans featuring heroines that attended Tulane University.
  • The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft briefly mentions a correspondence between the main character and authorities at Tulane University.
  • Love in the Ruins and The Moviegoer by Walker Percy are partially set on Tulane's uptown campus.
  • Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts features a character Roxanne Nouvelle who attends Tulane.
  • New Orleans Classic Gumbos and Soups by Kit Wohl features Tulane Chicken Andouille Gumbo.

Television

Documentary

  • Architecture School : Sundance Channel documentary series that followed a group of Tulane architecture students competing to design an affordable home in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. [2]

Fiction

  • CSI: Miami : Calleigh Duquesne attended Tulane and majored in physics.[ citation needed ]
  • Gilmore Girls : Rory Gilmore's high school classmate Louise Grant attended Tulane, and Louise's best friend Madeline Lynn also transferred to the university.[ citation needed ]
  • Grey's Anatomy : Dr. Preston Burke graduated first in his class at Tulane University for undergrad.[ citation needed ]
  • House of Cards : United States Secretary of State Catherine Durant attended Tulane University.
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit : At the end of the episode "Sophomore Jinx" (Season 1 Episode 6), one of the accused basketball players transfers to Tulane to play basketball. Detective Munch states his preference for the Green Wave describing them as "last year's sleeper in a round of sleepers, they're good on the break but need help on the wing". In "Secrets Exhumed" (Season 14, episode 14), the FBI agent Dana Lewis mentions that she was a freshman at Tulane.
  • Sex and the City : Mr. Big's ex-wife, Natasha, attended Tulane as an undergraduate student.
  • St. Elsewhere : Howie Mandel's character, Dr. Wayne Fiscus, attended Tulane medical school.
  • Treme : Creighton Bernette, played by John Goodman, teaches English at Tulane University.
  • Criminal Minds : In Season 2, Episode 18 "Jones", Sarah Danlin is mentioned to be a former Tulane Medical School Student

Reality television

Video Games

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