Kari Jegerstedt

Kari Jegerstedt (b 1963, Norway) heads the centre for women’s and gender research at the University of Bergen, and has a PhD in comparative literature with a thesis on Angela Carter.

Her interests include global and post-colonial literature, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and post-humanism. Jegerstedt has devoted particular attention in her recent research to contemporary African literature in English by all genders.