Avital Ronell, a high-profile New York University professor who was suspended after the university found she sexually harassed a graduate student, is returning to the classroom. But the graduate ...

In the past week, two prominent women have been accused of sexual abuse, resulting in questions about the #MeToo movement’s integrity. The first was Avital Ronell, a professor of German and ...

In the early months of #MeToo, Melissa Gira Grant wrote one of the best pieces to come out of the movement. She described being sexually harassed by her boss, an editor at a magazine, who’d send her ...

Aug. 14 (UPI) --New York University said it's suspended a literature professor -- who's also a noted feminist -- for "inappropriate physical contact" and sending harassing text messages to former ...

A world-renowned New York University professor was reportedly suspended for the upcoming school year after she was found to have sexually harassed a gay male student. Avital Ronell, 66, who is a ...

In May, 51 scholars -- including Judith Butler, Cathy Caruth, Joan Scott, Gayatri Spivak and Slavoj Zizek -- signed a letter to the president and provost of New York University in defense of Avital ...

One of the #MeToo movement’s lasting effects has been to highlight the strategies routinely used to delegitimize accusers. We know now that people—mostly men—accused of sexual misconduct will ...

New York University suspended Avital Ronell, a professor of German and comparative literature, for the coming year after finding that she sexually harassed a graduate student, Nimrod Reitman, The New ...

Avital Ronell, 66, is a well-known literary theorist and professor at New York University, acclaimed inside the hermetic world of postmodernism. Born in Prague to an Israeli diplomat, Ronell moved to ...

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