{"id":187,"date":"2010-10-16T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:40:09","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/english\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Courses taught:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<dt><strong>University of Iceland :<\/strong><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><em>BA-courses:<br \/>\n<\/em>Directions in Literary Theory<br \/>\nModernism<br \/>\nCritical Composition<br \/>\nScholarly and Journalistic Criticism<br \/>\nContemporary Literature<br \/>\nTranslation Studies<br \/>\nEnglish Literature (19. and 20. Cent.)<br \/>\nModern American Literature<br \/>\nFantasy<br \/>\nLiterary Representations of the City<br \/>\nIsland Literature<br \/>\nMilton's <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> (in English and Icelandic)<br \/>\nNarrative, Film and Adaptation<br \/>\nCultural Studies<br \/>\nLiterature, Culture, Place<br \/>\nThe Novel - Form and World<br \/>\nPoetry, Original and Translated<br \/>\nModern Irish Literature<\/p>\n<p><em>Special seminars<\/em>:<br \/>\nFranz Kafka<br \/>\nVirginia Woolf<br \/>\nRoland Barthes<br \/>\nJames Joyce's <em>Ulysses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MA-courses:<br \/>\nModernism and Postmodernism<br \/>\nThe City in Literature and Film<br \/>\nPlace and Space in Literature<br \/>\nLiterature and Reading<br \/>\nLiterary Research<br \/>\nWalter Benjamin<br \/>\nEncyclopedia of Literature in Iceland<br \/>\nConversations with Landscape and Places<br \/>\nTravels and Stories<br \/>\nArchitecture and Literature<br \/>\nHistory of Translation<\/p>\n<p><em>University of Victoria<\/em> (2016)<br \/>\nIsland Literature<\/p>\n<p><em>University of Iowa<\/em> (1997):<br \/>\nTranslation Theory<br \/>\nTranslation Workshop<\/p>\n<p><em>University of Copenhagen<\/em> (1997-98):<br \/>\nKafka, Modernism, and Postmodern Investigations<br \/>\nLiterary Theory and Textual Analysis<br \/>\nTranslation Studies and the Location of Culture<\/p>\n<p><em>University of Iowa<\/em> (1982-86):<br \/>\nOld Norse<br \/>\nInterpretation of Literature<br \/>\nLiterature and Anthropology: The Icelandic Sagas<br \/>\nGerman (first year courses)<\/p>\n<dl><\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courses taught: University of Iceland : BA-courses: Directions in Literary Theory Modernism Critical Composition Scholarly and Journalistic Criticism Contemporary Literature Translation Studies English Literature (19. and 20. Cent.) Modern American Literature Fantasy Literary Representations of the City Island Literature Milton's Paradise Lost (in English and Icelandic) Narrative, Film and Adaptation Cultural Studies Literature, Culture, Place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/1328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/astra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}