# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toril-moi
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:01.984Z

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name: "Toril Moi"
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description: "Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. As an undergraduate, she attended University of Bergen, where she studied in the Literature Department. 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 lived in Oxford, United Kingdom from 1979 to 1989. Moi lives in North Carolina. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and is fundamentally concerned with \"finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other.\""
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump