Jakob Lothe

Jakob Lothe (born 1950) is a Norwegian literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo.

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 completed 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.

His books include Conrad's Narrative Method (Oxford, 1989) and Narrative in Fiction and Film (Oxford, 2000). Lothe is also co-editor of Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (Ohio State University Press, 2008), with James Phelan and Jeremy Hawthorn, and of After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Ohio State University Press, 2012), with Susan Rubin Suleiman and James Phelan.

In 2006 he 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.

Lothe is member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, where he in 2005-06 was leader of the research project "Narrative Theory and Analysis" at the Centre for Advanced Study.

He is married to Elin Toft. Jakob Mathias Antonson Lothe was his grandfather.

• Kvinnelige tidsvitner (2013) ISBN 978-82-05-45706-5
• After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (2012) ISBN 978-0-8142-5182-9
• Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading (2011) ISBN 978-0-8142-5177-5
• Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (2008) ISBN 978-0-8142-5165-2
• Less Is More (2008) ISBN 978-82-7099-493-9
• Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (2008) ISBN 978-0-230-55316-3
• Tidsvitner (2006) ISBN 978-82-05-36362-5
• Franz Kafka: Zur ethischen und ästhetischen Rechtfertigung (2002) ISBN 3-7930-9277-1
• Narrative in Fiction and Film (2000) ISBN 0-19-875232-6
• Conrad in Scandinavia (1995) ISBN 0-88033-972-1
• Conrad's Narrative Method (1989) ISBN 0-19-812961-0