Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy literary studies psychoanalysis political philosophy and ethics She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy Ronell also teaches at the European Graduate School in SaasFee Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia She emigrated to New York in 1956 An elevenmonth investigation at New York University determined that Ronell sexually harassed a male graduate student and the university suspended her without pay for the 20182019 academic year Description above from the Wikipedia article Avital Ronell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia