She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Minnesota, and the author of several books, including Poisoned Ivy, about lesbophobic and homophobic workplace bullying in academia.
[1] McNaron spent her entire career in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.
[1] McNaron is the author and/or co-editor of several academic books about incest, feminism and LGBT topics as well as her own memoirs.
In Poisoned Ivy, she writes about closeted academics and what she describes as the homophobic workplace bullying that those who come out are subjected to.
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