Toril Moi

Toril Moi

Toril Moi (born 1953 in Norway) is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; on "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other."

Moi is the author of "Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory" (1985; 2nd edition 2002), "Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman" (1994); and "What Is a Woman? And Other Essays" (1999). She is the editor of "The Kristeva Reader" (1986), and of "French Feminist Thought" (1987). Her new book, "Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy", was published by Oxford University Press in August 2006. A Norwegian translation was published by Pax Forlag (Oslo) in May 2006.

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* [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/toril Professor Moi's Official Home Page]


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