Mette Leonard Høeg

Mette Leonard Høeg is a Carlsberg Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in English from King's College London, is author of Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory (Routledge, 2022) and editor of and contributor to Literary Theories of Uncertainty (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her current research is in consciousness studies and ethics with a focus on ego-dissolution, anti-essentialist notions of self and anti-anthropocentrism in literature and fictional narrative. She also works as a literature and film critic and is the literary editor of the Danish news media Frihedsbrevet.