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Auburn University

April 1, 2010 No Comments

Toril Moi will visit Auburn University on April 1-2, 2010. She will give a lecture on “The Body in Feminist Theory: Wittgensteinian Perspectives”, and do a seminar on some of her recent essays.

Past Talks

Lehigh University Postponed until March 25, 2010

March 25, 2010 No Comments

A snow storm postponed the Lehigh lecture. Toril Moi will now give a lecture on “The Body in Feminist Theory: Wittgensteinian Perspectives” at the Humanities Center at Lehigh University on March 25, 2010. The talk is part of Lehigh’s “Speaking Bodies” lecture series.

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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.