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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