Talks – Toril Moi

Conversation with Vigdis Hjorth

December 4, 2016 No Comments

I had a conversation with Vigdis Hjorth, which took place at the Literature House in Oslo in October 2016. You can find the Podcast here.

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Conversation with Vigdis Hjorth in Oslo

September 16, 2016 No Comments

I am looking forward to my conversation with the fabulous Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth at the House of Literature in Oslo on October 5.Â We’ll talk about her brand new novel Arv og MiljÃ¸.

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British Academy Master-Mind Lecture on Simone de Beauvoir

March 20, 2014 No Comments

On March 20th I will give the “Master-Mind” lecture at the British Academy, on Simone de Beauvoir. This is only the second time since the “Master-Mind” lectures began in 1914 that the selected “Master-Mind” is a woman. How fitting that the one woman found worthy of inclusion in the series was a writer Beauvoir admired enormously in her youth, namely George Eliot. For more information about the event, click here.

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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.