New York Post

Machete prof is baaack

- Allie Griffin

The former Manhattan college professor who threatened to “chop” up a Post reporter while holding a machete to his neck appears to have secured a new teaching gig.

Shellyne Rodriguez is listed as an adjunct instructor at Cooper Union in the East Village and appears on the fall semester schedule as teaching a sculpture class.

A spokespers­on for Cooper Union did not immediatel­y respond when asked to confirm Rodriguez’s employment status.

Rodriguez was fired from her roles as a professor at both Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts after she was caught threatenin­g and then chasing a veteran Post reporter with a machete on May 23.

She was charged with harassment, menacing and weapons possession following the violent encounter which began when the reporter and a photograph­er knocked on the door of her Bronx apartment to get comment on a viral video featuring the professor.

Rodriguez was caught on the video cursing and yelling at a group of Hunter College students who set up a table with anti-abortion pamphlets and materials on May 2.

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