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. and she serves on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as a subject area expert for 19th Century Philosophy.

Awards and honours Distinguished Anderson Fellow 2024 (University of Sydney) 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