Jakob Lothe

After growing up in Lote, Norway, Lothe studied at the University of Bergen where he completed his undergraduate work. He then studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he obtained an MA degree in Comparative Literature, before receiving his doctorate in Bergen in 1986. In addition to his professorship in Oslo he has held positions at the University of Bergen and the University of Tromsø, and has been visiting professor at the University of Oxford, the University of Cape Town and Harvard University. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/election-new-members-2018-spring-meeting|title = Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting}} In 2019 a Special Issue of the journal Partial Answers (17,2) was dedicated to Lothe.{{cite journal |last1=Phelan |first1=James |title=Jakob Lothe: An Appreciation |journal=Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas |date=2019 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=201–208 |doi=10.1353/pan.2019.0014 |s2cid=195567922 |id={{Project MUSE|726392}} }}

His books include Conrad's Narrative Method (Oxford University Press, 1989){{cite book|title=Conrad's Narrative Method|isbn=0198122551|last1=Lothe|first1=Jakob|year=1989|publisher=Clarendon Press }}{{pn|date=November 2023}}{{psc|date=November 2023}} and Narrative in Fiction and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000).{{cite book|title=Narrative in Fiction and Film|id={{ASIN|0198752326|country=uk}}}} Lothe is also editor or co-editor of a number of books, including Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (Ohio State University Press, 2008),{{cite book|title=Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre|isbn=978-0814251652|last1=Lothe|first1=Jakob|last2=Hawthorn|first2=Jeremy|last3=Phelan|first3=James|year=2008|publisher=Ohio State University Press }} with James Phelan and Jeremy Hawthorn, Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading, with Beatrice Sandberg and Ronald Speirs (Ohio State University Press, 2011), After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Ohio State University Press, 2012), with Susan Rubin Suleiman and James Phelan, Narrative Ethics, with Jeremy Hawthorn (Rodopi, 2013), and The Future of Literary Studies (Novus Press, 2017).

In 2006 Lothe co-edited Tidsvitner (Time's Witnesses) with Anette Storeide, a book documenting the stories of eight Norwegians who survived nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. The book was elected "Book of the Year" by the readers of the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet.{{cite web|url=http://www.morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/OBOKER/101190009|title=Testamentet|publisher=Morgenbladet (in Norwegian)|last=Time|first=Jon Kåre|date=Jan 19, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911090431/http://www.morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070119%2FOBOKER%2F101190009|archive-date=2009-09-11}} In 2013 he edited Kvinnelige Tidsvitner: Fortellinger fra Holocaust (English version: Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust. Fledgling Press, 2017). The book documents the stories of ten Jewish women who survived the Holocaust.

Lothe is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,{{cite web|title=Norwegian Members: Comparative literature - The Humanities and Social Sciences Division|url=http://www.dnva.no/c40133/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40203|access-date=11 April 2014|archive-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130511/http://www.dnva.no/c40133/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40203|url-status=dead}} where he in 2005-06 was leader of the research project "Narrative Theory and Analysis" at the Centre for Advanced Study.{{cite web|title=Research group in Narrative Theory and Analysis at the Centre for Advanced Study, 2005/2006|url=http://www.cas.uio.no/Groups/0506Narrative/index.html|access-date=11 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030337/http://www.cas.uio.no/Groups/0506Narrative/index.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} In the spring of 2018, Lothe was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/election-new-members-2018-spring-meeting|title=Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting {{!}} American Philosophical Society|website=www.amphilsoc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-08}} He is married to Elin Toft.{{cite web |url=http://www.aktive-fredsreiser.no/fredsdager/2013/takketale_jakob_lothe.htm |title=Takketale prisvinner Jakob Lothe |date=June 15, 2013 |publisher=Aktive Fredsreiser |language=Norwegian |access-date=October 24, 2014}} Jakob Mathias Antonson Lothe was his grandfather.

• Nordic Travels (co-ed. and contributor 2021). ISBN 978-82-8390-078-1
• Nordic and European Modernisms (ed. 2021). ISBN 978-3-0365-1523-6
• Research and Human Rights (ed. 2020) {{ISBN|978-82-8390-044-6|}}
• Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust. (ed. 2017) {{ISBN|978-1-90591-690-0|}}
• The Future of Literary Studies (ed. 2017) {{ISBN|978-82-7099-900-2}}
• Etikk i litteratur og film (2016). {{ISBN|978-82-530-3867-4}}
• Perspectives on the Nordic (co-ed. and contributor 2016) {{ISBN|978-82-7099-9}}
• Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism (co-ed. and contributor 2015) {{ISBN|978-1-77582-081-9}}
• Nordic Responses: Translation, History, Literary Culture (co-ed. and contributor 2014) {{ISBN|978-82-7099-762-6}}
• Narrative Ethics (co-ed. and contributor 2013) {{ISBN|978-904203-728-1}}
• After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (co-ed. and contributor 2012) {{ISBN|978-0-8142-5182-9}}
• Titanic: Historie, myte, litteratur og film (with Per Kristian Sebak) {{ISBN|978-82-530-3498-0}}
• Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading (co-ed. and contributor 2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8142-5177-5}}
• Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (co-ed. and contributor 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-8142-5165-2}}
• Less Is More: Short Fiction Theory and Analysis (co-ed. and contributor 2008) {{ISBN|978-82-7099-493-9}}
• Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (co-ed. and contributor 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-230-55316-3}}
• Litteraturvitenskapelig leksikon (with Christian Refsum and Unni Solberg, second ed. 2007) {{ISBN|978-82-573-1714-0}}
• Tidsvitner: Fortellinger fra Auschwitz og Sachsenhausen (co-ed. 2006) {{ISBN|978-82-05-36362-5}}
• The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis (co-ed. and contributor 2004, paperback 2011) {{ISBN|1-57003-557-1}}
• Joseph Conrad (2002) {{ISBN|82-05-30074-7}}
• English and European Modernisms (co-ed. and contributor 2002) {{ISBN|1-870041-49-6}}
• Franz Kafka: Zur ethischen und ästhetischen Rechtfertigung (co-ed. and contributor 2002) {{ISBN|3-7930-9277-1}}
• Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (co-ed. and contributor 2001) {{ISBN|82-7634-294-9}}
• Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction (2000) {{ISBN|0-19-875232-6}}
• Conrad in Scandinavia (ed. and contributor 1995) {{ISBN|0-88033-972-1}}
• Conrad's Narrative Method (1989) {{ISBN|0-19-812961-0}}

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• [https://jakoblothe.no/ Jakob Lothe's personal website]
• [http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/people/aca/jakoblo/ Website at the University of Oslo]
• [http://www.aktive-fredsreiser.no/nyheter/presse/2013_NOpresse_FT_jakob_lothe.htm Aktive Fredsreiser Prisen Fangenes biography] {{in lang|no}}

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