Education and work

Academic qualifications

1999 PhD in Danish from the University of Copenhagen.
1990 Certification as court interpreter and translator Danish/Icelandic.
1987 Cand. mag. in Danish from the University of Copenhagen.

Academic appointments

2003 Associate Professor of Danish at the University of Iceland.
2002 Member of the Board of the Centre for Research in the Humanities.
2001 Director of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages.
1999-2001 Head of the Department of Germanic and Nordic Languages.
1998-2003 Assistant Professor in Danish at the University of Iceland.
1995-1998 Assistant Professor in Danish at the Iceland University of Education.

Administrative positions and positions of responsibility

2012 External examiner for MA examinations at University of Greenland, Nuuk.
2011 Member of the selection committee for the design of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages building.
2010 Member of the committee preparing the new building for the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages.
2007 Member of the Board of Stiftelsen Clara Lachmanns Fond.
2005 Chairman of the committee developing a programme for future plans by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign languages to set up an International Language Centre at the University of Iceland.
2004 Alternate member of the Board of the cultural centre Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen.
2003 Member of a five-person committee assigned the task of drafting guidelines for Nordic Language Co-operation – Nordplus-Sprog.
2001 On the national committee for European Year of Languages (2001). Appointed by the Minister of Education, Science and Culture.
2000  Member of the anniversary committee for the ninetieth jubilee of the University of Iceland in 2001, appointed by the President of the University.
2000  Member of the Board of the "Open University." Preparations for a programme sponsored by the University of Iceland in connection with Reykjavík European City of Culture 2000.
1998-2001 Member of the Board of the Language Centre of the University of Iceland.
1997 Chairman of the preparatory group on revision of the Curriculum for Compul­sory and Secondary Schools in foreign languages. Appointed by the Minister of Education without nomination.
1994 Member of a committee sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers and commissioned to compose a new Nordic language program, Nordmål, for the period 1996-2000.
1983-1986 President of the Society of Danish Teachers.