Kari Jegerstedt is Head of Centre at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK). Her research interest includes: Feminist theory, Literary Theory, Narrative theory, Psychoanalysis, Post colonialism, Globalisation, Feminist fiction, South African Literature, Postmodern fiction, Radical Philosophy, Resistance and Queer theory.

2024

Women looking at men looking at women. Conversation during Bergen International Literary Festival, 09.02.24

Expert contact for 2024 Holberg Prize winner Achilles Mbembe.

2023

Enquete: Four Norwegian gender research centres on the anti-gender movement. Fett, 07.03.23 (in Norwegian)

2022

Presentation: "Begjærmaskinenes 50-årsdag: Deleuze/Guattari avec Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmann" during a full day seminar marking the 50 year anniversary of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Litteraturhuset i Bergen, 26 November 2022 (in Norwegian)

Conversation: Boklansering (book launch): Ovartaci - The Signature of Madness. The event is organized by SKOK, Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature (RFL) og Kunsthall 3,14. 25 November 2022 (in Norwegian and Danish)

Panel conversation: This month’s classic at the library: Audre Lorde – «Zami». Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. 16 November 2022 (in Norwegian)

Conference paper: The "Scandinavian Carter: A Comparison between Translations and the Reception of Angela Carter in Norway, Sweden and Denmark" at Angela Carter Around the World: Translation and Reception. Department of English, University of Lausanne. 4 November 2022

Initiator: SKOK's diversity workshop. 13 October 2022

Moderator: Queer Politics & Democratic Rights in India: 1975 - Present. 5 October 2022

Stage play, Den Nationale Scene in Bergen: Kommisjonen for de gode løsningene. 19 September 2022

Moderator: How to document and tell queer history? 29 August 2022

Co-organizer of conference: Why (Queer) History Matters, 28-29 August 2022

Interviewed in the article Nytt mannsutvalg utelukker kvinner – frykter useriøs gutteklubb, NRK Troms og Finnmark, 4 July 2022

Press release: Eksperter fra UiB: Skeivt kulturår/Pride 2022. 25 May 2022

Podcast episode, Femihelse: Kjønn: Hva skiller oss og hvordan blir vi de vi er? 23 May 2022.

Who's afraid of the white woman? Conversation with Rafia Zakaria about what it takes to create a new, inclusive feminism. Bergen International Literary Festival, 12 February 2022

Op-ed in Norwegian daily Aftenposten: Støtte til Store Norske Leksikon om kjønn. 11 January 2022

2021

Introduction before the screening of the film Examined Life - a warm-up to the Holberg debate 2021. 2 December 2021

Moderator of panel conversation during Torborg Nedreaas-dagen 2021. 13 November 2021

"Gender in times of globalization": Presentation at event to celebrate UiB's 75 year anniversary: Globale challenges that shaped the University 26 October 2021

Interviewed in the article Ny rapport viser at forskning på kjønnsperspektiver ikke har økt in Kilden, 21 September 2021

Interviewed in Norwegian daily Klassekampen about the start-up of Bergen International Book Club at the House of Literature in Bergen (behind paywall), 11 September 2021

Moderated the conversation during Election 2021 - The abortion issue in Norwegian politics at the House of Literature in Bergen, 8 September 2021

Moderated the conversation during the book launch of Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues, online, 8 June 2021

Moderated the panel What is gender research? during Kjønnforskning NÅ! (Gender Research NOW!) 2021. 26 May 2021

Op-ed in Kilden: Navnet former kjønnsforskningen. 20 May 2021

Presentation at the seminar Gender, Brain and Health, online, 21 May 2021

Interviewed in the article – Kvinnedagen er fortsatt viktig in Kilden, 8 March 2021

Presentation at seminar about Griselda Pollock, online, 22 February 2021

Moderator during Day Zero panel, SDG Conference 2021: Epistemic Inequalities: The Challenge of Decolonizing Knowledge in Gender Studies. 10 February 2021

2019

Psykoanalyse i litteraturen. Panel talk at the House of Literature in Bergen. 25 November 2019

SKOK seminar: Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Crossings and Divides. 28 August 2019

During this year's NORA conference (Nordisk tidsskrift for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning) in Reykjavik, Kari partipated in several panels. 22-24 May 2019.

Workshop for the project Brain-Sex - about brains and gender differences. Presentations from Stephen Dougherty, Mi-Kyung Yi, Neil Vickers, Claus Halberg, Marco Hirnstein, Emily Maddox, Magnus Michelsen, Sigrid Sandal. 11-12 January 2019

2018

Annual conference for RINGS (International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies). In the roundtable about “Teaching critical gender studies – dilemmas of identity and politics”, Kari, together with Rosemarie Buikema (Netherlands), Tamara Shefer (South Africa) and Christine M. Jacobsen (Norway) discussed about dilemmas that arise from ‘intersectional identities’ teachers and students bring to the class room. 17- 19 October 2018.

Jegerstedt's teaching experience covers introductory courses in gender studies, gender theory and psychoanalysis courses.

In addition to the regular teaching at SKOK, Kari has recently taught the following PhD courses:

• Gender, Justice and Environmental Crises during Bergen Summer Research School, June 2022
• Feminist Visions for Justice in Times of Environmental Crises, December 2021
• Technologies are Us: Feminist Perspectives on Posthuman Futures, September 2020
• Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change, August 2015

Conference lecture

• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). The Big Bad (Were)wolf and the Biopolitics of Female Sexuality. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2006). Hva er kjønn? Hva er litteratur? Og har de to spørsmåla noe med hverandre å gjøre?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Lesning og globalisering. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Redi Koobak (2021). Rendering Difference: Art, Politics, and the Call to Decolonize. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Opposition and/or Resistance: Disgrace in the Age of Multiple Identities. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2013). Lange netter: Kjærlighet som sannhetsprosedyre og skaperkraft. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2015). Planetarity and Literary Climate Imaginaries. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Sex and Subjectivity in the Age of the Brain: Philosophical and Aesthetic Imaginaries of (Post)Human Futures in Light of Neuro-Technologies. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2012). Sexual Difference in a Post-colonial, literary context. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Figures of Resistance in/for a Globalized World. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2005). Beretningen om den store krigen mellom lystprinsippet og realitetsprinsippet: Allegori og parodi i Angela Carters The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Kjønn og makt som språklige praksiser. Lesninger av kulturen som tekst. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Caught Between Colonial Violence and Ecotourism: A Second Look at Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000). (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Writing the Effects of War through the Feminine Body. A Reading of Dubravka Ugresic's Yugoslavian Essays.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Parody and Allegory as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Thinking the Event in the Postcolony. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Citizenship, Democracy and the Figure of Woman. Nongqawuse's Legacy. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Disgrace in the Age of Multiple Identities: Feminism and 'the Politics of Subtraction'. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Figurer for motstand i globaliseringens tid. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Motstand. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Literature; or, Philosophy of Sexual Difference. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). De-colonial Critique and SDGs. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Necropolitics and Affirmation in/of the Feminine in Postcolonial Literature. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). What is Imagination?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Zeljka Svrljuga; Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (2013). Postcolonial citizenship and the figure of woman: The case of the 'Hottentot Venus'. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Tverrfaglighet og den instrumentelle kunnskapsproduksjon. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Realistisk dokumentasjon eller (post)moderne eksperiment?: Noen refleksjoner rundt begrepet kvinnelitteratur med utgangspunkt i svart, sør-afrikansk 70-tallslitteratur. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). 'Teaching in the End Times': Humaniora og kunnskapsproduksjon i globaliseringens tidsalder. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2014). The Sexuality of Extremism: A Reading of Two 'Manifestos'. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). Marcusian Feminism: Angela Carter and the Spirit of 68'. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Angela Carter and the Democratization of Literature: Rereading Black Venus. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Om Kjønnsteori. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Feminisme i de mangfoldige identiteters tidsalder. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Gendered Bodies in a Postcolonial Context: Reading Zoe Wicomb's David's Story. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Necro-politics and the affirmation in/of the feminine in postcolonial literary knowledge production. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Post-Colonial Theory and South-African Literature. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Sofie Marhaug (2018). De Varme Hendene: Nedreaas's miskjente kommunistiske roman?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Transgender Narratives and the Truth of Sex. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2015). Hvorfor ikke lese en roman? Lesning og skrift som feministiske strategier. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Christine M. Jacobsen (2018). Teaching Critical Gender Studies – Dilemmas of Identity and Politics. Roundtable discussion also including Rosemarie Buikema and Tamara Shefer. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Cathrine Egeland; Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Diskursiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Ellen Mortensen (2008). Hva er kjønn? Ulike tilnærmingsmåter. (external link)
• Jorunn Svensen Gjerden; Kari Jegerstedt; Zeljka Svrljuga (2016). "The Hottentot Venus is Unavailable for Comment": Questioning Representation through Aesthetic Practices. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Sofie Marhaug (2023). De varme hendene: Betraktninger over den politiske kunstens (u)mulighet. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Camille Paglia. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Cathrine Egeland (2008). Diskursiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Kari Jegerstedt; Sissel Rosland (2008). Postkolonial teori, svart feminisme og antropologi. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Zeljka Svrljuga; Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (2019). Refiguring Black Venus. Preliminary Considerations. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2012). Frykten for det feminine. Kjønnssymbolikk og misogyni i Behring Breiviks ”manifest”. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). The Voice of Venus. Angela Carter's Black Venus and the Democratization of Literature. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Ellen Mortensen (2008). Seksualitetsteori og skeiv teori. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Litteraturvitenskap. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Judith Butler. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). bell hooks. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Dekonstruktiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2012). The Art of Speculation. Allegory and Parody as Critical Readings Strategies in The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2020). Literature as Philosophy of the Real: Ethics and Sexual Difference in Coetzee's Disgrace. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Per Arne Michelsen; Anemari Neple (2023). "Vent ikke noe beskjedenhet fra meg". Om kanoniseringen av en forfatter. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). 'Teaching in the End Times'. Humaniora og kunnskapsproduksjon i globaliseringens tidsalder. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Joan Copjec. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Antigone og den allmenne litteraturvitenskapen: Om forholdet mellom kjønnsteori og litteraturteori. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (external link)

Introduction

• Ellen Mortensen; Cathrine Egeland; Randi Gressgård et al. (2008). Innledning. (external link)
• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt; Ragnhild Louise Muriaas et al. (2016). Gendered Citizenship: The Politics of Representation. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Kari Jegerstedt; Lars Sætre (2008). Angela Carter leser Freud Allegorien og parodien som kritiske lesestrategier i The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2007). Angela Carter leser Freud. Parodien og allegorien som kritiske lesestrategier i The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Magnus Michelsen; Kari Jegerstedt (2018). Tarrying with Sexual Matters. Thinking Change from Lacan to Badiou. (external link)

Media feature article

• Kari Jegerstedt (2012). Å jage skygger i Sør-Afrika. (external link)
• Astri Dankertsen; Kari Jegerstedt; Ann Therese Lotherington et al. (2025). Trussel mot kjønns­forskningen er en trussel mot demokratiske verdier. (external link)
• Per Buvik; Ellen Mortensen; Kari Jegerstedt (2014). Europa -- et uferdig prosjekt. Kronikk om Julia Kristeva. (external link)

Lecture

• Kari Jegerstedt (2020). Blood, Sweat, and Writing. Samtale med Gloria Gervitz og Mary Rufle om litteratur og kvinners aldring.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Feminisme og Nyliberalisme. Debattledelse.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Hottentott Venus. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Kjønnsforskning og biologi. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Margareth Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale. Paneldebatt. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). To write as a female author. Samtale med Siri Hustvedt og Karolina Ramqvist. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Non-Binding Contracts. Does the author have a responsibility for clarifying how their text should be read? Samtale med Dubravka Ugresic og Ane Farsethås. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Om Rosi Braidottis The Posthuman. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2012). Santu Mofokeng i møte med sentrale forfattere fra Sør-Afrika. Samtaleleder.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Per Buvik (2010). Samtale med forfatteren Tomas Espedal. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2015). Kenya as a Novel. Samtale med Yvonne A. Owuor og Stefan Helgesson. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). 'Å lese Lessing. Tett på Martha Quest'. Samtale med Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen og Tomas Espedal.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2020). Hegel og feminisme: Fra Simone de Beauvoir til Judith Butler. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). What He Said. How did the Idea of Men as the 'Strong Sex' Get Established? Samtale med Angela Saini og Helene Uri.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). "A Cyborg Manifesto" av Donna Haraway. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Høyreekstremismens kjønnsideologier. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2015). Afropolitan Feminism. Samtale med Minna Salami. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). Tribute to Jamaica Kincaid. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Har terapeutens kjønn noe å si for utfallet av terapien? Samtale med Hanne Haavind. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). Det teknologiske mennesket. Samtale med Bår Stenvik, Cathrine Knudsen og Aksel Tjora.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2020). Man, Woman, and Art. Samtale med Susanne Christensen og Marie Darrieussecq om Leonora Carrington og Paula M. Becker. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson (2021). Naturlege Gleder. Samtale med Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson om boken På Naturens Skuldre og Dara McAnulty Diary of a Young Naturalist. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Kjønn og språk. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). When the Rules Do Not Apply. Samtale med Ariel Levy.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Gisle Selnes (2019). Psykoanalyse og litteratur. Samtale mellom Gisle Selnes, Kari Jegerstedt og Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Psykoanalyse og nevrovitenskap. Samtale med Siri Hustvedt. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2018). Arven etter Nedreaas. Samtale med Ingri L. Ramberg, Frode L. Boasson og Grethe F. Syéd. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Are We Witnessing a Renaissance of Psychoanalysis? Samtale med Renata Salecl, Henrik Jøker Bjerre og Vladimir Safatle. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2013). The Meaning of An Aesthetic Education on the Era of Globalization. Samtale med Gayatri Spivak. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Kenneth Hugdahl; Stephanie Meirmans et al. (2013). Why Does all the Girls Have To Buy Pink Stuff? Panel discussion. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Gro Byrkjeland; Heidi Haaland; Kari Jegerstedt et al. (1995). Perifraser. Til Per Buvik på 50-årsdagen fra venner og kolleger ved Litteraturvitenskapelig institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)

Research report

• Rasmus Tore Slaattelid; Camilla Brautaset; Pär Ola Sandin et al. (2016). Tematiske profilområde ved HF. (external link)

Book anthology

• Kari Jegerstedt; Per Arne Michelsen; Anemari Neple (2023). Politikk, kunst og kjærlighet. Nye perspektiver på Torborg Nedreaas' forfatterskap. (external link)
• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt; Ragnhild Louise Muriaas et al. (2016). Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Representation. (external link)
• Ellen Mortensen; Cathrine Egeland; Randi Gressgård et al. (2008). Kjønnsteori. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Jorunn Svensen Gjerden; Zeljka Svrljuga (2019). Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Lillian Munk Rösing; Henrik Jøker Bjerre et al. (2020). Analysing the Cultural Unconscious. Science of the Signifier. (external link)

Academic article

• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Seksualitet, makt og motstand: Joan Copjec vs. Michel Foucault. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Aktivismens former. Del av debattkollasj om meningen med litteraturvitenskapen, ved Kjersti Aarstein. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Anitras etterliv. "Ibsens kvinner" i en postkolonial kontekst. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Ellen Mortensen (2014). Introduction. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Enquete om Donna Haraway. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2022). Simone de Beauvoir og den feministiske arven etter Hegel: Revisjon, subversjon, dekonstruksjon. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2008). Angela Carter og Rødhette i eventyrskogen. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2006). Kampen om forståelsen: Om feminisme og postkolonialisme etter 11.september og Muhammed-karikaturene. (external link)

Popular science article

• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Amandla! Awethu! (Heteroskop). (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Jeg er ingenting. Frihet, likhet og søstersolidaritet under apartheid. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Gisle Selnes (2009). "Kommunismen som idé". (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2009). Opprør. Katastrofe. Trofasthet. The Xhosa Cattle-Killing (1856-57) og kommunismen som idé. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2005). Gayatri Spivak. Feminismens postkoloniale kritiker. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Engasjert litteratur (Heteroskop). (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Hottentott Venus (Heteroskop). (external link)

Journal review

• Kari Jegerstedt (2006). For lite kropp og for lite litteratur. Anmeldelse av Unni Langås (red.) Den litterære kroppen. Artikler om kropp og tekst fra Edda til i dag. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2014). Eva Heggestad, Anna Williams og Ann Öhrberg (red.): Fält i förvandling. Genusvetenskaplig litteraturforskning. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Litteraturen og det fremmede. Om Erich Auerbach. Verdenslitteraturens filologi. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2002). Anmeldelse av Johan J. Tønneson (red.). Den flerstemmige sakprosaen. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Christine Hamm; Jørgen Magnus Sejersted et al. (2014). Leiar. (external link)
• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt (2013). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Hilde Danielsen; Kari Jegerstedt (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Frihet i sakte bevegelse (Heteroskop). (external link)

Conference poster

• Kari Jegerstedt (2019). Concluding Remarks. Roundtable.. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). 'Nyttig' kunnskap – for hvem?. (external link)

Media interview

• Kari Jegerstedt (2016). 22. juli: Hatet mot kvinner. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2015). Holbergsamtalen 2015: Marina Warner. (external link)
• Siri Øyslebø Sørensen; Kari Jegerstedt (2025). Kjønn, likestilling og mangfold – et tullestudie?. (external link)
• Tonje Vold; Kari Jegerstedt; Hanne Skogvang Stork (2025). Gayatri Spivak fikk Holbergprisen. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Hva var poststrukturalismen – og har den utspilt sin rolle?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2011). Poststrukturalisme og kjønnsforskning – svar til Cathrine Holst/Helene Aarseth og Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2017). Kommentar til humaniorameldningen. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Sluttreplikk om kjønnskritikk. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Kjønnsforskning på alvor?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt (2010). Mageplask om "Hjernevask". (external link)

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