Kristin Gjesdal

Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics (focusing especially on Hans-Georg Gadamer), nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and she has served on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as a subject area expert for 19th Century Philosophy.

Awards and honours

 * Fulbright Foundation fellowship
 * Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship
 * Eleanor Hofkin Award for Excellence in Teaching

Books

 * Herder's Hermeneutic Philosophy: History, Poetry, Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2017
 * Gadamer and The Legacy of German Idealism, Cambridge University Press, 2009
 * The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche, Oxford University Press, 2020
 * Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2021