Past Students Say Professor of Rock ânâ Roll Sexually Harassed Them
Six former University of Michigan students have filed legal papers accusing a former lecturer of sexually harassing them and the school of not doing enough to protect them.
Bruce Conforth, a former University of Michigan teacher, in a scene from a documentary about the musician Robert Johnson. Seven women say he sexually harassed them while they were studying at the school.Credit...Netflix
April 23, 2021, 11:06 a.m. ET
During 16 years teaching at the University of Michigan, Bruce Conforth stocked his lectures with tales from a life filled with boldfaced names: He had rubbed elbows with Bob Dylan, played music alongside B.B. King, apprenticed for the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning and befriended the poet Allen Ginsberg.