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Ika Willis

Ika Willis is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Wollongong. Willis works across the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, Cultural Studies, and fan studies, specializing in reception theory: how readers and audiences make sense of, and make use of, texts.

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In Defense of the Trigger Warning

By Ika Willis | Published: November 3, 2016

A literature professor who has offered 'trigger warnings' to students argues that the warnings are designed to open up a discussion of difficult material – not suppress it.

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