Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell
Born (1952-04-15) 15 April 1952 (age 72)
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Alma materRutgers Preparatory School
Middlebury College
Princeton University
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy, critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism
Doctoral advisorStanley Corngold
Main interests
Addiction,[1] deficiency,[2] dictation,[3] disappearance of authority,[4] disease,[5] drugs,[1] excessive force,[6] ethics,[6] legal subjects,[6] rumor,[7] stupidity,[8] technology,[9] telephony,[9] tests,[10] trauma,[10] war[11]
Notable ideas
Allotechnology, "Being-on-drugs," biophony, killer texts, narcoanalysis, supreme-suppression, applied censorship, narcossism, obliterature, toxicogeography
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Avital Ronell (/ˈɑːvɪtəl roʊˈnɛl/ AH-vit-əl roh-NEL; born 15 April 1952) is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics.[12] She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program.[13] As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell also teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.[12]

She has written about such topics as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone; the structure of the test in legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical domains; stupidity; the disappearance of authority; childhood; and deficiency. Ronell is a founding editor of the journal Qui Parle.[14]

An eleven-month investigation at New York University determined that Ronell sexually harassed a male graduate student, and the university suspended her without pay for the 2018–2019 academic year.[15][16]

  1. ^ a b Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania, (University of Nebraska Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0-8032-8944-4[page needed]
  2. ^ Avital Ronell, "Preface," in Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, (University of Illinois Press, 1994) p. xiv, ISBN 0-8032-8949-9
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  4. ^ Avital Ronell, "Introduction" in Loser Sons: Politics and Authority, University of Illinois Press, pg. xxii, ISBN 0-252-03664-6
  5. ^ Avital Ronell, "Queens of the Night," Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8032-8949-9[page needed]
  6. ^ a b c Avital Ronell, "TraumaTV," Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8032-8949-9[page needed]
  7. ^ Avital Ronell, "Street Talk," Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8032-8949-9[page needed]
  8. ^ Avital Ronell, Stupidity, University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-252-07127-0[page needed]
  9. ^ a b Avital Ronell, The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, (University of Nebraska Press, 1989)
  10. ^ a b Avital Ronell, The Test Drive, (University of Illinois Press, 2005) ISBN 978-0-252-07535-3[page needed]
  11. ^ Avital Ronell, "Support Our Tropes," Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8032-8949-9[page needed]
  12. ^ a b "Avital Ronell - Professor of Philosophy - Biography". 24 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ^ "Department of Comparative Literature". complit.as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Qui Parle » About Us". 6 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ Gessen, Masha (August 25, 2018). "An N.Y.U. Sexual-Harassment Case Has Spurred a Necessary Conversation About #MeToo". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
  16. ^ Fischetti, Matthew; Cochran, Lisa (2020-02-04). "Ronell Takes Leave of Absence After Contentious Return Last Semester". Washington Square News. Retrieved 2023-01-29.