Who's Allowed to Protest?

Bruce Robbins is an American literary scholar, author and an academic. He is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of several books published by academic publishers, including, most recent Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (2022) and Atrocity: A Literary History (2025). He lives in New York City.