Broken Record

Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism and coeditor, with Heather Hewett, of #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. Carrie Rohman is Professor of English at Lafayette College. She is the author of Choreographies of the Living: Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance and Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal. Carlyn Ena Ferrari is Assistant Professor of English at Seattle University. She is the author of Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden: Anne Spencer's Ecopoetics.

"Sharing our stories of complaint matters even when, or perhaps because, we have shared these stories many times before … The message is hopeful and hard. Yes: there is still so much work to do. Yes: we have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Yes: the need to repeat ourselves can be tiring, frustrating. That is why we need to say it more and for more to say it." — Sara Ahmed, from the afterword"As the editors hope and intend, this volume functions as a complaint collective. In their specificity and range, the essays cast light on many corners of academe, elucidating patterns of harassment and the blocking of efforts to prevent or redress harm. Although the essays document diabolically successful campaigns to isolate women academics and demonstrate the fragile bonds that hold whistleblowers together, the volume also provides the context necessary to understand the pervasiveness and nuances of harassment, as well as the processes that leave those who complain open to doubt and discrediting." — Leigh Gilmore, author of The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women

• Introduction: "A Fragile Archive"Mary K. Holland, Carrie Rohman, and Carlyn Ena FerrariPart One: Contexts and Systems of Abuse1. Survival Analysis: Why Do We Vanish, Where Do We Go?Anonymous2. This Chapter Not Intentionally Left BlankAnonymous3. Unbecoming the Other Me: A Female Academic Trapped in the Male Student GazeAimee Parkison4. Keeping Women in Their Place: Sexism in Religious UniversitiesRachel Noorda5. The Snake: Surviving Misogyny in TunisiaSouhir Zekri Masson6. Tall Poppy in the English Field: How Successful Women Are Mowed DownAnonymous7. Misogyny and Abuse in the Academic Library Workplace: Reflections on Fifteen Years in American Academic LibrariesCarolyn Carpan 8. "Tell Me More": When Bleeding on the Page Isn't EnoughCarlyn Ena Ferrari Part Two: Resistance and Consequences 9. Mad Woman in the Ivory Tower: The Continuous Costs of Speaking Up after Professor/Student AbuseSarah Cheshire 10. Muffled Voices: Creating Safe Space in a Toxic DepartmentRifat Siddiqui 11. Rocking the Boat: Experiences of "Silencing" from the Global SouthDarlene Demandante and Raphaella Elaine Miranda 12. To Make a Fuss: The Chronic Predator in Higher EducationAnonymous 13. Too Woke, Too Radical, Too Unforgiving: Queer Resistance to the Patriarchal PanopticonNancy Pathak14. Shocked: Resisting and Rising above Abuse in Academe(Karen) Irene Countryman-Roswurm 15. The Specter of Anonymity and the Shadow Labor of ComplaintAlison E. Vogelaar Part Three: Theorizing and Enacting Change as Individuals and Collectives 16. All My Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk: The Politics of Solidarity in Black AcademiaNicole Carr 17. In Defense of RememberingShannon Walsh 18. How Black Men Can Help Eradicate Gendered Abuse on University CampusesKudzaiishe Peter Vanyoro 19. Tracking Sexual Predators across Academic Institutions: Benefits and Limits of Informal Complaints and Recommendations for ChangeAnonymous 20. The LIEG's Complaint Collective: Reclaiming Academic VoicesLidia M. V. Possas and M. Emilia Barbosa 21. Disrupting the Past as Prologue: Recognizing and Responding to Strategies and Tactics of Gendered OppressionChristina Gallup, Anne Hinderliter, Njoki M. Kamau, Arshia Khan, Lu Smith, and Elizabethada Wright 22. Feminist Secretaries: Silence, Authenticity, and Resistance in the AcademyFrancine Banner, Pamela Aronson, Kathleen Darcy, Maureen Linker, Jean-Carlos Lopez, and Lisa A. Martin 23. It Is Better to Speak: A Complaint CollectiveLori Wright, Neisha Ginae Wiley, Elizabeth VanWassenhove, Brandelyn Tosolt, Rae Loftis, and Meg L. Hensley Afterword: "Heard as a Broken Record"Sara AhmedAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex