May 14, 2008

Dissonant discourse

Zoe Brain looks at the strange case of Priya Venkatesan, an English teacher at Dartmouth college who threatened to sue her students for not wholeheartedly agreeing with her point of view - Venkatesan says their behavior amounted to "fascist demagoguery".

According to the WSJ: "She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of 'French narrative theory' that it amounted to a hostile working environment".