Professor Lust

October, 1997

Emotions ran high on a Friday in 1991 at an academic conference in Milwaukee. A distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee declared to all that "graduate students are my sexual preference." It was a joke.That evening, the same professor held court in a hotel bar. A female graduate student who would deliver a scholarly paper on love letters between women joined the group. During an evening filled with sexual banter, the prof...