Interviews, Broadcast & Podcast Appearances
Amy, J. (2026, April 23). Interview on free-speech lawsuit against Emory University. Associated Press (picked up by news outlets around the US and internationally including by CBS News Atlanta, Al Jazeera, and MSN)
“Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making” [Radio/podcast interview with Nahlah Ayed]. Ideas, CBC Radio, September 26, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16097314-deliberation-time-anger-making-space-collective-decision-making
“Faculty Perspectives on Campus Protests” [Panel video, with J. Ruth and B. Letiecq; hosted by R. O. Martinez]. FutureU Forum, recorded June 21, 2024. https://futureu.education/futureu-forum/futureu-video-faculty-perspectives-on-campus-protests/
“Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee” [Podcast interview with S. Malik]. The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC Radio National (Australia), June 7, 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/the-philosophers-zone/103835834
“Civil Disobedience” [Podcast interview with E. Anderson & D. Peña-Guzmán]. Overthink, June 4, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPz2ozBeCM
Gluckman, N. (2024, May). “Call the Philosophy Department Office and Tell Them I Have Been Arrested” [Interview]. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/call-the-philosophy-department-office-and-tell-them-i-have-been-arrested
Lampen, C. The Cut. (2024, May 3). “It Was Like an Ambush” [Interview]. https://www.thecut.com/article/emory-pro-palestine-protest-professor-arrested.html
“Emory University Professor Noëlle McAfee Says Violence Didn’t Happen Until the Police Showed Up” [Television interview]. Scripps News, May 2, 2024.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/no%C3%ABlle-mcafee-of-emory-university-says-violence-didn-t-happen-until-police-showed-up/vi-AA1o3l4A
Kleinpeter, B. (2024, April 26). Interview with Emory professor Noëlle McAfee about protest arrest [Television interview]. 11Alive (WXIA, NBC Atlanta].https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/longer-interview-with-emory-professor-noelle-mcafee/85-3fbe7736-0de5-491e-ba5d-1ea758030a94
France 24, The Debate — “Generational shift? Gaza war campus protests spread across United States” (April 29, 2024)
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20240429-generational-shift-gaza-war-campus-protests-spread-across-united-states
News Nation, Cuomo (April 2024) https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/protesters-are-not-in-solidarity-with-hamas-emory-professor/ or https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=414115484712547
Democracy Now! (April 26, 2024). “Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” Interviewed alongside Emil’ Keme (professor of English and Indigenous studies) and Palestinian American organizer Umaymah Mohammad, McAfee describes the police crackdown on the Emory encampment and the arrest of faculty and students. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/26/emory_protests
“‘It just became bedlam’: Emory professor arrested during protest speaks out” [Interview]. Atlanta News First, April 26, 2024. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/04/26/it-just-became-bedlam-emory-professor-arrested-during-protest-speaks-out/
News Coverage
“Professors sue Emory over April 25 encampment arrests.” The Emory Wheel, April 24, 2026. https://emorywheel.com/article/professors-sue-emory-over-april-25-encampment-arrests-20260424
“MSGF Files Free Speech Lawsuit Against Emory University on Behalf of Three Professors” [Press release]. Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, April 24, 2026. https://mitchellshapiro.com/msgf-files-free-speech-lawsuit-against-emory-university-on-behalf-of-three-professors
“Emory sued by professors arrested in 2024 protest.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 2026. https://www.ajc.com/education/2026/04/emory-sued-by-professors-arrested-in-2024-protest/
“University Senate investigates Emory’s termination of professor” [Interview]. The Emory Wheel, September 2025. https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2025/09/university-senate-preliminary-investigation-finds-professor-s-termination-violated-open-expression-policy
“Professors are uniquely powerful. That may be changing,” Alan Blinder, The New York Times, November 2, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/faculty-power-shared-governance-university-presidents.html
“Philosophy Chair Noëlle McAfee Among Protesters Arrested at Atlanta’s Emory University.” The Daily Beast, April 25, 2024. https://www.thedailybeast.com/philosophy-chair-noelle-mcafee-among-protesters-arrested-at-atlantas-emory-university/
“Law enforcement forcibly disbands pro-Palestine encampment at Emory — students, faculty arrested.” Atlanta Civic Circle, April 25, 2024. https://atlantaciviccircle.org/2024/04/25/palestine-encampment-emory-students-faculty-arrested/
“At least 28 arrested at Emory after demonstration protesting Israel-Hamas war, ‘Cop City.’” Decaturish, April 25, 2024. https://decaturish.com/2024/04/at-least-15-arrested-at-emory-after-demonstration-protesting-israel-hamas-war-cop-city/
“Dozens arrested at Emory after demonstration protesting Israel-Hamas war, ‘Cop City.’” Atlanta News First, April 25, 2024. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/04/25/least-15-arrested-emory-after-demonstration-protesting-israel-hamas-war-cop-city/
Op Eds and News Media Articles
McAfee, N. (2025, April 25). A year after arrests, what will you see today at Emory Universitiy? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. https://www.ajc.com/education/get-schooled/emory-university-students-and-faculty-mark-one-year-since-police-moved-in-on-protesters/A26Z5ATOKJG7FHZWFQBFGDDPOY/
McAfee, N. (2024, June 13). University presidents should study how democracy works. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/university-presidents-should-study-how-democracy-works/
McAfee, N. (2024, May 31). Lessons for university presidents: Learn how democracy works. The Emory Wheel. https://emorywheel.com/lessons-for-university-presidents-learn-how-democracy-works/
McAfee, N. (2024, May 10). I was detained at an Emory protest. Here’s what the university got wrong. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. https://www.ajc.com/opinion/i-was-detained-at-an-emory-protest-heres-what-the-university-got-wrong/XUML2Q6DQZHWNHWGCDXZIMPB4Y/
McAfee, N. (2019, August 11). The public sphere in dark times. Los Angeles Review of Books (forum: The Unfinished Project of the Enlightenment: Jürgen Habermas at 90). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-public-sphere-in-dark-times/
Invited Public Essays
McAfee, N. (2025, July 17). A psychoanalytic pedagogy for teaching authoritarianism. Psyche on Campus. https://web.sas.upenn.edu/psycheoncampus/author/noellecmcafeeemoryedu/
McAfee, N. (2024, November 13). Assaults on the conscience of our culture. Cultural Critique Online. https://manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-frame-009-forum/section/f4105a87-fadb-454b-b6ac-9cfe9e4011cf
McAfee, N. (2024, October 23). From neoliberal to authoritarian: The new playbook of higher education. Post-Neoliberalism: Pathways for Transformative Economics and Politics. https://www.postneoliberalism.org/articles/from-neoliberal-to-authoritarian-the-new-playbook-of-higher-education/
McAfee, N. (2024, September 25). A toolkit for spotting the authoritarian university. Academe Blog, American Association of University Professors. https://academeblog.org/2024/09/25/a-toolkit-for-spotting-the-authoritarian-university/
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