Duke Prof. Quits Committees in Protest

AP via SFGate ^ | 1/12/7

[SmithL]

A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus.

"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus.

"Despite our judgments about the prosecutor's own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process," she wrote.

Earlier this month, officials at Duke said charged lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann could return to school as students in good standing. They were suspended last year after a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a lacrosse team party accused them of rape and sexual assault. A third player, Dave Evans, graduated the day before he was indicted.

. . . Holloway was one of 88 faculty members at Duke who endorsed an ad last April in the campus newspaper that included anonymous quotes from students discussing racism and sexual assault on Duke's campus. She said she receives angry, racist e-mails attacking her for being among the school's critics.

[SmithL]

She's got her own agenda, it would seem.

[SmithL]

Karla FC Holloway  
William R. Kenan Professor of English

Teaching (Spring, 2007):

• English 166.01, Afr-amer literary genres Synopsis

  Allen 318, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• English 381.01, Special topics seminar

  Allen 306, Tu 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

Office Hours:

Mondays 3:30pm-4:30pm at the Law School
(Room 4012) and by appointment

Education and Interests:

Ph.D., Michigan State University

African American Cultural Studies, Bio Cultural Studies, Law

Karla FC Holloway is the William Rand Kenan Professor of English at Duke University. She also holds appointments in the Law School and in Women's Studies. Her research and teaching interests focus on African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, ethics and law. She is the author of six books,including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories -- a cultural and historic look at bereavement, death, dying, and burial in twentieth century African America and BookMarks--Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  BookMarks: Reading in Black and White--A Memoir.  Rutgers University Press, 2006.
2.  Passed On: African American Mourning Stories.  Duke UP, 2002. (2nd printing (2002); paperback (2003))
3. "Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, or: 'They Done Taken My Blues and Gone'." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7:1 (forthcoming Fall, 2006).
4. "Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine and the Problem of Polyheme." The American Journal of Bioethics 6:3 (2006).
5.  "DNA and the Romance of Race." . February, 2006.
6. "W.E.B.DuBois and The Right to Privacy." Annals of Scholarship  (forthcoming 2006).
7. "The Death of Culture." The Massachusetts Review  (Spring, 1999): 31-41.

   http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/karla.holloway

[LIConFem]

Nifong's sister, cousin, aunt or other relative? Mistress, perhaps?

[zarf]

I'd hit it.

[twigs]

I read this yesterday. Curious, I went to the Duke University English major website. I was not the least impressed with what they teach their majors. It's really a shame that our top universities have substituted PC courses for courses whose sole objective is to teach the discipline.

[RexBeach]

I am surprised that there is a pic of this lady smiling.

My word, look at her publications, she must be miserable.

"Hi, I'm Prof. Karla Holloway, and I'm here to help! No, really I am! And I'm really, really ethical, too!"

[NonValueAdded]

Come on, girl, no half measures ... resign your professorship.

[Doc Savage]

Gee, how did I know she was black????

[Brilliant]

If she were really principled, she'd simply quit her job altogether.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Her entire profile is race, race, race. I don't think she could get a job anywhere but in the Guilt Department of a US university.

[D-Chivas]

Probably looking for a raise at a different school.

[rabscuttle385]

We have our own at U.Va. Last year they were the key backers of an attempt to force President Casteen to adopt a "living wage" (i.e. raise wages by ~30% annually).

This is why I stay in the Engineering School. The folks here actually spend their time productively.

[wideawake]

If she were really principled, she'd simply quit her job altogether.

Well, if you look at her profile, she's already cut her office hour"s" to one hour a week.

She's almost there.

[Enchante]

What a joke -- if those publications make someone worthy of tenure in the Dept. of English Literature at a supposedly "elite" university then academia is in even worse condition than we'd thought..... what does this charlatan actually know about English Literature????

[AbeKrieger]

She should be terminated without prejudice.

[ml/nj]

I wonder how fast she would scream if she were accused of a crime and then suspended by Duke until after her trial.

ML/NJ

[jpl]

If hating white people can be considered an agenda, then yeah, I'd agree.

[Rakkasan1]

"Archie & Jughead: A Treatise on Squirreliness."

[Spok]

"African American Cultural Studies"

It's not like she's a real professor. Every position she vacates will be enriched by her absence.