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Latest Norwegian column posted

November 1, 2010 No Comments

I just uploaded my latest column for Dagens NÃ¦ringsliv, from Saturday 30 October. It’s about Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom, but above all about what it means when Americans talk about “the great American novel.”

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Summer Institute on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

October 31, 2010 No Comments

I will be leading a Summer Institute for the National Humanities Center on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook at the end of June 2011. The NHC awards fellowships for these institutes. The deadline for applications is March 11, 2011.Â For more information click here.

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The last Mad Men postings

October 18, 2010 No Comments

The last Mad Men postings are up over on Wall Street Journal‘s “Speakeasy” blog:Â The season finale, which aired yesterday, and episode 12 from last week.

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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.