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“The Adventure of Reading” now published

April 12, 2011 No Comments

My new paper Â â€œThe Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoirâ€ has now been published in Literature and Theology, 2011. <doi: 10.1093/litthe/frr014> . For a free access link to a pdf of the paper, please click here.

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Latest column in Dagens NÃ¦ringsliv posted

April 11, 2011 No Comments

Click here for my latest column in Dagens NÃ¦ringsliv (2 April 2011), about women at MIT (in Norwegian).

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Defense of the humanities in Aftenposten

April 2, 2011 No Comments

Click here to read (in Norwegian) my essay in defense of the humanities: “Forsvar for humaniora” published in Aftenposten on March 31, 2011.

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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.