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The New Translation of The Second Sex

February 6, 2010 No Comments

Toril Moi’s review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is now available on the website of the London Review of Books.

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OLP and Literary Studies Blog

November 2, 2009 No Comments

I like the Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) and Literary Studies Blog very much!

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Fried, Pippin, and Jameson at Duke

October 25, 2009 No Comments

The Centre for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) at Duke University will host a symposium on “Realism, Modernism, and Philosophy” on March 4 and 5, 2010. On March 4 there will be lectures by Fredric Jameson, Michael Fried and Robert Pippin. On March 5 the three speakers will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Toril Moi. For more information, see PAL’s web pages.

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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.