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

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.

[4] Lothe is also editor or co-editor of a number of books, including Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (Ohio State University Press, 2008),[5] 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.

Lothe is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[7] where he in 2005-06 was leader of the research project "Narrative Theory and Analysis" at the Centre for Advanced Study.