Kari Jegerstedt
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August Jegerstedt Selnes
Kari Jegerstedt (b 1963, Norway) heads the centre for women’s and gender research at the University of Bergen, and secured 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.