Mad Men – Page 2 – Toril Moi

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September 28, 2010 No Comments

Here are links to the Wall Street Journal Blog for Mad Men season 4, episodes 7,8, and 9.

Episode 7; episode 8; episode 9.

I couldn’t blog for episodes 5 6, and 10. But will be back for episode 11!

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Blogging on “Mad Men” for the Wall Street Journal

July 25, 2010 No Comments

Walter Dellinger invited David Paletz, Alan Brinkley, Evangeline Morphos and me to join an online conversation, hosted by the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy” blog, about the new season of “Mad Men” which begins tonight on AMC. The first installment will be online as soon as the show ends tonight. Here are the second, third, and fourth instalments.

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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.