From F-Bombs to Kissing Students: Media Framing of Male and Female Professors Accused of Sexual Harassment

2020 ◽  
pp. 019685992097711
Author(s):  
Bethany Pitchford ◽  
Miglena Sternadori ◽  
Jesse Starkey ◽  
Amy Koerber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
New York University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
Systemic Nature

This constructionist framing analysis identified media frames in news coverage of four tenured professors, two men and two women, accused of sexual harassment at research-intensive universities: Jorge Dominguez (Harvard), Coleman Hutchison (University of Texas), Avital Ronell (New York University), and Teresa Buchanan (Louisiana State University). The following four frames, some of which were distinctly gendered, were identified in the news coverage of the professors: Little Boys Being Bad; Academic Power Players; Treacherous Stay-Away-Froms; and Eccentric Freethinkers. The findings are discussed through a feminist lens, which prioritizes gendered power dynamics and social norms. The analysis indicates that news coverage of sexual harassment still limits recognition of the problem’s systemic nature and the institutional responsibility to prevent it. The article further contributes to the feminist literature on sexual harassment by demonstrating that the term “sexual harassment” is often misused to avoid including details about what has happened to victims.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Johns Hopkins Hospital ◽  
State University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
Infantile Paralysis

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has awarded postgraduate fellowships in the fields of scientific research, physical medicine and public health. Three of the new fellows will devote their time to research projects in the field of pediatrics. Dr. John J. Osborn, of Larchmont, N.Y., has already begun his project at New York University—Bellevue Medical Center under Drs. L. Emmett Holt, Jr., Professor of Pediatrics, and Colin MacLeod, Professor of Microbiology; Dr. Paul Harold Hardy, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., and Dr. David I. Schrum, of Houston, Texas, will start their work July 1, respectively, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, under Drs. Francis F. Schwentker, Pediatrician-in-Chief, and Horace L. Hodes, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; and at Louisiana State University School of Medicine under Drs. Myron E. Wegman, Professor of Pediatrics, and G. John Buddingh, Professor of Microbiology.

scholarly journals Joan Oleck. Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2011. 59p. ISBN 978-1574401646. $75

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-198
Author(s):  
Lori Birrell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New York University ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Business Week

Representing the Primary Research Group (PRG), Joan Oleck, a freelance journalist and past contributor to Business Week and Newsday, shares the findings from a 2011 project that “profiles the management practices and other business decisions of nine high-profile special collections/rare book libraries.” The nine institutions profiled include the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University, the Harry Ransom Research Center Library and Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, and the American Museum of Natural History Library, New York City, among others.Although Oleck fails to describe how PRG chose each institution included in the report, the variety . . .

A Voice of the Second Generation: Antje Lenkeit Directs Fassbinder's ‘Katzelmacher’ in Munich

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Lynn Sobieski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
West Germany ◽  
New York University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University

The heavily-subsidized state theatre system of West Germany is often regarded as a model for emulation by the funding agencies of the English-speaking theatre. Yet the situation of such theatres can give rise to its own problems: and in this case-study of the rehearsals of Fassbinder's Katzelmacher at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Munich, in 1985. Lynn Sobieski (who was assistant dramaturg on the production) analyzes the resulting personal and artistic conflicts, in the context of a system which encourages a degree of complacency in the bureaucracy, and arguably permits some self-indulgence to the directors – while discouraging those of the first ‘post-war generation’ from giving real opportunities to their successors. Lynn Sobieski is presently teaching in the Department of Drama of the University of Texas at Austin, having recently been awarded her doctorate from New York University for her dissertation on ‘The Crisis in West German Dramaturgy’. Her collection, Postmodernism and Contemporary Performance, will be published later this year, and she is currently working on a study of performance art groups in Britain.

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