Kristin Gjesdal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Temple. She studied philosophy at the University of Oslo, and has been a visiting scholar at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, and Columbia University, as well as a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Specializing in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and 18th-century German philosophy, Kristin Gjesdal has published articles in journals such as Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology.

As a Faculty Fellow at CHAT, Kristin Gjesdal will be working on late 18th-century and early 19th-century theories of interpretation. In particular, she is interested in how 19th -century hermeneutics develops as a response to the epistemic and political challenges following the increasing interest in non-European cultures among German philosophers at the time.