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The Grammar of Passion: Vigdis Hjorth and Annie Ernaux

February 21, 2020 No Comments

This is a brief text I wrote in Norwegian for a book celebrating Vigdis Hjorth’s 60th birthday in 2019. Contributors were asked to answer one question: “Do you, who have read Vigdis Hjorth’s books, believe that love will be possible again for the author?”

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Headline: Knausgaard Keynote

December 5, 2018 No Comments

I will be the opening keynote speaker for SASS 2019, May 2, 2019

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“Shame and Openness” in Australia

November 24, 2018 No Comments

This text on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series is now freely available online, courtesy of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religion and Ethics website

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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.