PAL Director

Toril Moi

James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies
Professor of English, Professor of Theater Studies, Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature

Toril Moi's latest book is Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2006), which won the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best book in Comparative Literary Studies in 2007. She is now working on a book on ordinary language philosophy and problems in literary theory.

For more information about Toril Moi's academic work, click here. For Toril Moi's website, click here.

PAL People

Leonore Fleming

Leonore Fleming is a graduate student at Duke University working on a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an M.S. in Biology. She works on philosophy of biology but also has an interest in Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy. She designed the PAL website, and is the Center's webmaster. She is responsible for publicity and outreach for PAL.

Kaila Brown

Kaila Brown is a graduate student in the PhD program in English Literature at Duke University. Her interests are rooted in Modernism and Phenomenology. She also integrates the debates and history of the philosophy of religion and moral philosophy within her work on Modernist writers, artists, directors, and philosophers. She is one of the PAL assistants for the 2010-2011 year.