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Low completion rates at Norwegian universities

July 16, 2013 No Comments

My column about the latest OECD report about higher education, which shows that Norwegian universities have a very low completion rate, created quite a lot of debate. Many readers have asked me for the text. I have now posted the pdfÂ here.

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Lectures about Camilla Collett online

June 14, 2013 No Comments

Norway ‘s Â National Library organized an excellent conference about Camilla Collett to mark her 200th anniversary in January. Now NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting, has made all the talks, including mine, available online:Â NRK links to Camilla Collett conference.

All the videos from the conference are also available here, on the National Library’s own web pages:Â Camilla Collett conference videos.

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Four new columns from Dagens NÃ¦ringsliv uploaded

May 8, 2013 No Comments

I have finally caught up with my own columns! Four columns from 2013 have now been uploaded. They deal with Camilla Collett, Sonia Sotomayor, Hilary Mantel, and Sheryl Sandberg, respectively. All in Norwegian, I am afraid.

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Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of English, and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke.

In spring 2009, she was a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

Toril Moi grew up in the countryside in the south-west of Norway, and was educated at the University of Bergen. From 1979 to 1989 she lived mostly in Oxford, UK, and since 1989 she has been a resident of North Carolina.

As an academic, she writes on feminism, literary theory, ordinary language philosophy and literature. Her first book, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985) has been translated into fifteen languages. Her 1994 book Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman has been translated into five languages, and a new 2nd edition was published in 2008. Her book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism won the MLA's award for best book in comparative literary studies for 2007. Her most recent book on feminist theory is Sex, Gender and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman (2005).

In Norway, Toril Moi also writes widely for newspapers and magazines.