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Revolution of the Ordinary!

September 16, 2016 No Comments

My new book is in production! Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell will be published by Chicago University Press in May 2017. I will post more information later.

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Poetry festival inspired by “Language and Attention”

September 16, 2016 No Comments

I am delighted to learn that the Harpefoss Poetry Festival kicks off today. They are using Språk og oppmerksomhet, the pamphlet I published in Norway in 2013, as their point of departure. Klick here for their website (in Norwegian).

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Erica Wagner on Ibsen

September 28, 2014 No Comments

Erica Wagner wrote a great article in The New Statesman on Ibsen’s life and work, to celebrate the Ibsen festival at the Barbican in London, and the publication of the new translations. Here is a pdf of the same article: Erica Wagner – New Statesman.

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About me

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.

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