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 ...

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 ...

The messy NYU case -- in which a feminist scholar is accused, and in which evidence continues to come out -- morphs into a debate about academic stars. The Me Too case that’s captured the morbid ...

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 ...

When word broke that Avital Ronell, a professor of German and comparative literature at New York University, had been suspended for sexually harassing a male graduate student, skeptics of the #MeToo ...

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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