SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Real Cases: Rape of Chanel Miller

»Chanel Miller (born 1992) is an American writer and artist based in San Francisco, California and New York City. She was known anonymously after she was sexually assaulted on the campus of Stanford University in January 2015 by Brock Allen Turner. The following year, her victim impact statement at his sentencing hearing went viral after it was published online by BuzzFeed, being read 11 million times within four days. Miller was referred to as "Emily Doe" in court documents and media reports until September 2019, when she relinquished her anonymity and released her memoir Know My Name: A Memoir. The book won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiographies and was named in several national book lists of the year. She is credited with sparking national discussion in the United States about the treatment of sexual assault cases and victims by college campuses and court systems. She is also a public speaker.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Rape by Brock Allen Turner

I n f o r m a t i o n

»People v. Turner, formally The People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner (2015), was a criminal case in which Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault. On January 18, 2015, on the Stanford University campus, Turner, then a 19-year-old student athlete at Stanford, sexually assaulted 22-year-old Chanel Miller (referred to in court documents as "Emily Doe"), while she was unconscious. Two graduate students intervened and held Turner in place until police arrived.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Topical Index: Types: Sexual Assault: Rape, Campus Sexual Assault; Victims: Narratives: Know My Name: A Memoir

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Campos, Juana. Rape Myths in the Local and National Newspaper Coverage of the Brock Turner Case. M.A. Thesis, University of Houston, 2020.

[Info] Fernández-Morales, Marta. »Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller s Know My Name.« Life Writing (April 5, 2023).

[Info] Sweeny, JoAnne. »"Brock Turner is not a Rapist": The Danger of Rape Myths in Character Letters in Sexual Assault Cases.« UMKC Law Review 89 (2020): 121-159.

[Info] Viehbeck, Vanessa. »The freshman swimmer and the intoxicated woman: Sexist discourse in news coverage of the Stanford rape case.« Pragmatics and Society 11 (2020): 363-390.

II. Speaker Index