Reading, Pa.  –In honor of Black History Month, Nathaniel Norment, Ph.D., will present The Influence of African-Americans on Modern Culture on February 17, 2011, at 7 p.m.  The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Klein Lecture Hall at Albright College. 

Norment is chair and associate professor of African-American studies at Temple University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in African-American Studies and African-American literature and culture. He is the director of the Center for African-American Research and Public Policy at Temple.  His research focuses on four areas affecting African-Americans: criminal justice, economic development, education and health.   Norment is the author of the newly published The Addison Gayle Reader, a collection of significant writings by Professor Gayle.

Norment is also the editor of The African-American Studies Reader, Readings in African-American Language: Aspects, Features and Perspectives and An Introduction to African-American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions. In addition, he has published in the College Language Association Journal, the Journal of Basic Writing, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, the Journal of Black Studies and the Language Quarterly.

Norment earned a bachelor’s degree at Ball State University, a master’s degree at Saint Francis University, and  a doctorate at Fordham University.

For more information about the event or disabled assistance, please contact the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at 610-921-7529.  Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on the Albright College campus at 13th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.