Trigger Warnings

Emily J. M. Knox is assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, and the intersection of print culture and reading practices. Knox’s book Book Banning in 21st-Century America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) was the first book in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series.

All the chapters are worth reading.... The book, as the editor hopes, is indeed fodder for discussion.

• Introduction. On Trigger WarningsEmily J.M. KnoxPart I: History and TheoryChapter 1. Like Trapdoors: A History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Trigger WarningSarah ColbertChapter 2. Accessibility on Campus: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Duty to Accommodate, and Trigger WarningsHolly TaylorChapter 3. Contagious Speech: Mediating the Eating Disorder Panic Through Trigger WarningsStephanie GreyChapter 4. Gender Constructions and Trauma: Trigger Warnings as an Accommodation for Female Students in Higher EducationJordan DollChapter 5. Walking on the Shards of the Glass CeilingJane Gavin-HebertChapter 6. An “App” for That: The Case Against an ‘Equal Access’Bonnie WashickChapter 7. Writing Policy About Trigger Warnings: The Experience of the American Association of University Professors and the American Library AssociationBarbara M. JonesPart II: Case StudiesChapter 8. Institution-Wide Trigger Warnings: A Case Study of a University’s ‘Common Reading’Joe C. Martin & B