Background
Thorgeirsdottir, Sigridur was born on February 22, 1958 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Thorgeirsdottir, Sigridur was born on February 22, 1958 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir graduated from Boston University in 1981. She pursued graduate studies in Boston and at Freie Universität Berlin where she finished her Master"s degree in 1988. In 1993 she completed her doctoral studies at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Prior to that she lectured in philosophy at Rostock University. She was Jane and Aatos Erkko professor at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies 2014-2015, University of Helsinki. She has interpreted Nietzsche´s philosophy of the body and sexual difference in terms of its influence on feminist and women thinkers of the 20th century, from Arendt and Beauvoir to Irigaray and Butler.
In her writings on philosophy of embodiment and nature, the notions of relationality and connectedness are central.
This also influences her recent work on economy and morals, such as in studies on the debt-economy. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir is one of the founders of the United Nations University GEST—Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme, a joint project of the United Nations University, University of Iceland and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
She serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is on the board of FISP, the world organisation of philosophical societies that organizes the World Congress of, and chair of its committee for gender issues.
The Department of at the University of Iceland hosts the Erasmus Summer Schools in Gender and that Thorgeirsdottir runs with colleagues from the universities of Jyväskylä in Finland, Oslo in Norway and Aalborg in Denmark.
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, feminist philosophy and philosophy of nature and embodiment. She has published works on feminist philosophy, the philosophy of Arendt and Beuvoir, and recently introductory texts to women in the history of philosophy.
In 1997 she was the first woman to become a member of the Faculty of at the University of Iceland.