October 10, 2008

The Complexity of Academic Bullying

To the Editor:

Academic bullying is a more-complex subject than Piper Fogg's "Academic Bullies" (The Chronicle Review, September 12) makes it seem. I wish her article had reflected the advances in scholarship reported at the 6th International Conference on Workplace Bullying in Montreal last June, where researchers from 30 countries shared their latest insights.

An up-to-date overview would not have had the title "Academic Bullies." It would not have defined the problem as some