Kari Jegerstedt

Kari Jegerstad (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 posthumanism. Jegerstedt has devoted particular attention in her recent research to contemporary African literature in English by all genders.