Feminist and Academic Avital Ronell Stands Accused

I recently spotted an article  published in Salon written by Zizek. It is in support of Avital Ronell and concludes with the statement:  ‘The only good outcome of the scandalous procedure against Avital could be that it would trigger a reflection on the pathologies of our academic lives.’ (note: look for the inflammatory comments at articles end)

more context on the accusation.

Ronell gave an engaging lecture last April on the ongoing crisis in protesting the reign of Trump in America:

here is a breif bio info on Ronell:

Avital Ronell is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at New York University, where she is a professor of German, English, & comparative literature. Ronell was born in Prague. Her parents were Israeli diplomats who returned to Israel before going to New York; she studied at the Hermeneutics Institute in Berlin with Jacob Taubes, ultimately earned her doctorate at Princeton University, and then worked with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris. She was professor of comparative literature and theory at the University of California at Berkeley for several years before eventually returning to New York, where she currently teaches German and comparative literature and theory—in addition to her yearly Fall semester seminar with Derrida—and where she continues to churn out a breathtaking range of rigorously deconstructive rereadings of everything from technology, the Gulf War, and AIDS to opera, addiction, and stupidity. Her new book, Stupidity, is just out (December 2001), and she is currently at work on The Test Drive.