Tulane University in popular culture

• Architecture School:[1] This Sundance Channel documentary series follows a group of Tulane architecture students competing to design an affordable home in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.[2]

• Welcome to Academia: The university was one of the main filming locations.
• The Pelican Brief (1993): It was filmed on Tulane's uptown campus and the president's house at Two Audubon Place.
• Runaway Jury (2003): The library of the Tulane president's house served as the judge's chambers.
• The Brooke Ellison Story (2004): Tulane's academic quad substituted for Harvard University's campus in Christopher Reeve's last film.
• College (2008), the university was one of the filming locations.
• Living Proof (2008): Television film from starring Harry Connick Jr., which used the university as one of the filming locations.[3]
• Hurricane Season (2010): The university's Fogelman Arena was one of the filming locations.[4]
• Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011): The university's Woldenberg Art Center's Freeman Auditorium was one of the filming locations.[4]
• So Undercover (2011): The university's uptown campus was the main filming location.[5]
• 22 Jump Street (2014): Tulane's uptown campus was one of the main filming locations for the movie, which also hired Tulane students as extras.[6]
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2016): The university's McAlister Auditorium was one of the filming locations.[7]
• Faith of My Fathers: The outside scenes of the United States Naval Academy were filmed at Tulane.

• American Routes: in fall 2008, Nick Spitzer began a new partnership with Tulane University to co-produce his weekly radio show.[8]

• Best Damn Sports Show Period: Celebrating the return of college football to the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina; the show taped from the uptown campus on September 27, 28, and 29, 2006.[9] 4
• Gilmore Girls: Rory's friends from Chilton, Madeline and Louise, end up attending Tulane.
• House of Cards, United States Secretary of State, Catherine Durant, is a Tulane University graduate.
• Sex and the City: In season 2, Mr. Big marries Natasha, who is a Tulane alumna .
• Treme: Filmed scenes of fictional professor Creighton Bernette (John Goodman) at Tulane University.
• Scream Queens: Tulane's uptown campus served as the location of the fictional Wallace University.
• The Magicians: Tulane's uptown campus served as a filming location for the fictional Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.
• Preston Burke Cardiothoracic surgeon in Grey's Anatomy is a Tulane alumna.

• Taxi Driver (1976): Robert De Niro's character shoots a robber to save a person who is wearing a Tulane T-shirt.
• No Mercy (1986): William Atherton's character wears a Tulane sweatshirt.
• JFK (1991): Kevin Costner plays Tulane Law School graduate Jim Garrison in this Oliver Stone film.
• The Pelican Brief (1993): 1993 screen adaptation of the 1992 John Grisham suspense/thriller The Pelican Brief, which involves a fictional second-year Tulane law student and her professor as characters.
• Shark Night (2011): Seven Tulane undergraduate students go for a weekend trips in Louisiana Gulf where they are attacked by shark.
• The Best of Me (2014): Michelle Monaghan plays Amanda Collier, who attends Tulane University. Other references to the school are made throughout the movie.
• Split (2016 American film) (2016): Dr. Fletcher has a diploma for a Master's of Psychology Degree from Tulane University hanging on her wall.

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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]

• CSI: Miami: Calleigh Duquesne attended Tulane and majored in physics.
• Gilmore Girls: Rory Gilmore's high school classmate Louise Grant attended Tulane, and Louise's best friend Madeline Lynn also transferred to the university.
• Grey's Anatomy: Dr. Preston Burke graduated first in his class at Tulane University for undergrad.
• 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

• The Amazing Race: Tulane alumni Azaria Azene and Hendekea Azene participated in the 12th season.[14]
• The Amazing Race: Nancy Gunn, Tulane graduate school alumnus and current Tulane Adjunct Professor and Production Director was Senior Producer for the series for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award.
• Big Brother 14: Winner Ian Terry attended Tulane.
• The Real World: Denver: Colie Edison attended Tulane.
• The Real World: New Orleans: The cast often socialized with Tulane students, especially at The Boot Bar.

• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers by Sierra Entertainment: Tulane is one of the game locations.
• In the Laura Bow Series by Sierra Entertainment (including games The Colonel's Bequest and The Dagger of Amon Ra): Laura Bow, the main character is a Tulane student.