NYU Professor and Feminist Scholar Found Responsible for Inappropriate Physical Contact, Sexual Text

[RhodeIslandOne]

https://www.nyunews.com/2018/08/13/08-13-ronell-accusations/

An 11-month Title IX investigation headed by NYU’s Office of Equal Opportunity found Professor of German and Comparative Literature Avital Ronell responsible for “inappropriate physical contact” and sending sexual texts to former graduate student Nimrod Reitman. Ronell has been suspended for the upcoming academic year for the policy violations.

Ronell — a leading feminist scholar — was Reitman’s doctoral advisor. In the report, he alleges that over the course of three years, starting in the spring of 2012, the professor nonconsensually touched his body and kissed his cheeks and lips on many occasions. On one occasion before he officially began his doctorate program, Reitman alleged that in Ronell’s apartment in Paris, she “… touched his crotch over his clothes, with her buttocks, by pushing her body into his.” Among descriptions of similar encounters, he said Ronell made him lie in her bed, refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate and emailed and called him constantly.

This story is wild.

[irresistable]

1. I am surprised by this story...He has a husband and she "identifies as queer".

[mr_lebowski]

2. Dude's name is Nimrod? For reals? Lol ...

Ya know, NYU graduate students (mid 20's, presumably) would seemingly have some kind of discretion as to whether they just kinda 'end up' ... at their Doctoral Advisor's Paris Apartment ... call me crazy, but ...

[LisaL]

3. Presumably so, but would you feel the same if this was a male professor and a female student?

[Dr. Strange]

4. It is wild.

Not just in terms of Ronell's behavior, but also the way that some prominent names (Judith Butler, etc) have tried to say the behavior is okay because, hey, she's brilliant.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Letter-Defending-Avital/243650