Books: 

Icelandic. An Essential Grammar. London/New York: Routledge 2021.

Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners (book and audio). Revised Edition. London/New York: Routledge 2013. 398 bls. ISBN 978-0-415-52746-0 (Colloquial Icelandic: A Complete Course for Beginners (book and CD/cassettes). London/New York: Routledge 2001. ISBN 0-415-20708-8.)

The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-88629-317-0.

 

Editions:

Ed. and intro. with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. Minni og gleymska [Memory and Forgetting]. Ritið Special Issue Vol. 13. No. 1 (2013). 226 pp. ISSN 1670-0139.

Ed. and intro.  A History of Icelandic Literature.  Vol. 5 in Histories of Icelandic Literature.  Ed. Sven Rossel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.  ISBN-13 978-0-8032-3346-1.

Ed.  Perkensian Rambles: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Richard Perkins.  London: Department of Scandinavian Studies/UCL, 2005.

Ed. and intro. with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir.  The Silent Music of the Clouds: 100 Years with Halldór Laxness.  Scandinavica Special Issue  Vol. 42. No. 1 (May 2003). 204 pp.  ISSN 0036-5653.

 

Articles:

“Islands and War: Remembering the Allied Occupation in Iceland.” In Iceland – Ireland and the TransAtlantic Peripheral: Memory, Literature, Culture.  Eds. Fionuala Dilland and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 108-34.

“The Allied Occupation of Iceland: Indriði G. Þorsteinsson’s North of War.” In Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory.  Ed. Marianne Stecher-Hansen. New York / Oxford: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. 287-307.

“Complex Nostalgias: North, Pastness and Community Survival in Arnaldur Indriðason’s Strange Shores and Ann Cleeves’ Blue Lightning.” In Noir in the North: Genre, Politics and Place.  Eds. Stacy Gillis and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 85-99.

“Stríð og glæpir í skáldsögum Arnaldar Indriðasonar.” Tr. Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir. Tímarit Máls og menningar 81.3 (Sept. 2020): 5-30.

“Norse Mythology in Icelandic Fiction on the Second World War.” In Northern Myths, Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies since 1800.  Ed. Simon Halink.  Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. 115-126.

“Mál til samskipta eða tengsla? Gildi íslenskunnar í Vesturheimi.” In Sigurtunga. Vestur-íslenskt mál og menning. Eds. Höskuldur Þráinsson, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir and Úlfar Bragason. University of Iceland Press, 2018. Pp. 279-302.

with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir.  „Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag’.” In The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception. Eds. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Tea Sindbæk Andersen. Brill, 2017. Pp. 220-239.

“War and Crime in the Work of Arnaldur Indriðason.“ Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek 35.1 (2017): 4-25.  <ugp.rug.nl/tvs/article/view/29433/26761>

“Soldiers and Other Monsters: the Allied Occupation in Icelandic Fiction.”  Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 23 (2016): 96-120.  <www.scancan.net/pdf/neijmann_1_23.pdf>

„’Á landamærahafinu’: Hugleiðingar um sögur Svövu Jakobsdóttur.“ Tímarit Máls og menningar 77.2 (June 2016): 66-74.

“’Foreign’ Immigrants Write Back: The Publication of Laura Goodman Salverson’s The Viking Heart.”  Translation Effects: The Shaping of Modern Canadian Culture.  Eds. Kathy Mezei, Sherry Simon, og Luise von Flotow. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. Pp. 163-73. ISBN 978-0-7735-4316-4.

“’... sem allur þungi heimsstyrjaldar lægi í skauti hennar’: ástandskonur í íslenskum hernámssögum eftir karla.” Fléttur III: Jafnrétti, menning, samfélag. Eds. Annadís Gréta Rúdólfsdóttir, Guðni Elísson, Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson and Irma Erlendsdóttir. Reykjavík: RIKK/Háskólaútgáfan, 2014.  PP. 196-213. ISBN 978-9935-23-017-1.

“’A Fabulous Potency’: Masculinity in Icelandic War Literature.” Men after War. Eds. S.P. McVeigh og N. Cooper. Routledge Research in Gender and History. London/New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. 152-69. ISBN13: 978-0-415-82565-8.

“’Hringsól um dulinn kjarna.’ Minni og gleymska í þríleik Ólafs Jóhanns Sigurðssonar. ” Ritið 12.1 (2012): 115-39.

“Foreign Fictions of Iceland.” Iceland and Images of the North. Eds. Daniel Chartier og Sumarliði Ísleifsson. Montréal: Presses de l´Université de Québec, 2011. Pp. 481-584.

With Cristina Ros i Sole and Jelena Calic. „A social and self-reflective approach to MALL [Mobile Assisted Language Learning].“  ReCALL 22.1 (Jan. 2010): 39-52.

“The Image of Iceland in UK Fiction”. Scandinavica 48.2 (2009): 26-58.

“’Girl Interrupting’: History and Art as Clairvoyance in the Fiction of Vigdís Grímsdóttir.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 17 (2007): 1-16.  ISSN 0823-1796 (lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca/cocoon/journals/scancan/article.pdf?id=neijmann_1_17)

“’Að skrifa Ísland inn í umheiminn’: þýðingar á Íslandi í menningarkennslu og bókmenntasögu erlendis.” Ritið 7.2-3 (2007): 241-53.  ISSN 1670-0139

“’New’ Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic Cultural Identity.”  Centring on the Peripheries: Studies in Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic Literature.  Ed. Bjarne Thomsen.  Norwich: Norvik Press, 2007.  Pp. 185-99.  ISBN 978-1-870041-66-9.

“Icelandic Canadian Literature.”  A History of Icelandic Literature.  Ed. Daisy Neijmann.  Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.  Pp. 608-642.

“In Search of an Icelandic Literature: The History and Practice of Early Icelandic Literary Historiography.”  Scandinavica 45.1 (May 2006): 43-73.  ISSN 0036-5653.

“Laura Goodman Salverson”. The Literary Encyclopedia: Literature in English around the World.  Ed. Robert Clark.  <www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3923>.

“’Many Masks Merge in an Island Face’: Re-imagining an Orcadian Past.”  In Words in their Places: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie.  Eds. Henk Aertsen, Mike Hannay and Rod Lyall.  Amsterdam: VU Press, 2004.  Pp. 111-122.  ISBN 90-9018747-2.

“‘Cracking the Boundaries’: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature.”  In Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada.  Eds. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton and Domenic A. Beneventi.  Essay Series 49.  Toronto/Lancaster: Guernica, 2004.  Pp. 56-77.  ISBN 1-55071-167-9.

“Laura ’Lárusdóttir’ Salverson: Walking in the Narrative Ways of the Father.” In Rediscovering Canadian Difference. Ed. Gudrun Björk Gudsteins. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 17. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press, 2001.  Pp. 153-164.  ISBN 9979-54-4791.

“‘Beyond Icelandic’: Teaching in a Heritage Language and Literature Department.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 13 (2000-2001): 62-73. ISSN 0823-1796

“Damned with Faint Praise: The Reception of Laura Goodman Salverson’s Works by the Icelandic Canadian Community.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 12 (1999): 40-62. ISSN 0823-1796

“Fighting with Blunt Swords: Laura Goodman Salverson and the Beginnings of a Canadian Literary Canon.” Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (Summer 1999): 138-73.  ISSN 0313-0301

“Icelandic-Canadian Literature And Anglophone Minority Writing In Canada.”  World Literature Today, special issue on contemporary literatures in Canada 73.2 (Spring 1999): 245-55.  ISSN 060-680

“Laura Goodman Salverson and the Marginalization of Ethnic-Canadian Female Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature.” Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Literature & Criticism.  Ed. Jørn Carlsen.  The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 12.  Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus, 1998.  Pp. 163-82.

“Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature.”  Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 10 (1997): 53-75.

“In Search of the Canadian Icelander: Writing an Icelandic-Canadian Identity into Canadian Literature.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 29.3 (1997): 64-74.

With David G. Delafenetre. “The Netherlandic and Scandinavian Transition in Canada: A Sociological and Literary Perspective.” International Journal for Canadian Studies 15 (Spring 1997): 209-30.

“A Failure of Imagination? Icelandic-Canadian Literary Culture in the ‘Canadian Mosaic’.” In Chicago/Amsterdam, A Man of Two Cities: Essays in Memoriam of August J. Fry.  Eds. Henk Aertsen and Richard Todd.  Amsterdam: VU Press 1996.  Pp. 73-91.  ISBN 90-5383-474 5.

“Islenska röddin í kanadískum bókmenntum.” Skírnir (Spring 1996): 145-71.

“Laura Goodman Salverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Canadian Authors.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 8 (1995): 19-36.

 

Reviews:

“Rannsóknir á stríðsárum. Arnaldur Indriðason: Þýska húsið.” Bókmenntavefurinn, Dec. 2015. <http://bokmenntir.is/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-3409/5648_read-39724/6711_view-6399/>.

Frans J. Schryer.  The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity.  Canadian Ethnic Studies 31.2 (1999): 154-56.

Joan Clark. Eiríksdóttir. The Icelandic Canadian 53.2 (winter 1994): 108-10.

Magnús Einarsson. Icelandic-Canadian Oral Narratives and Icelandic-Canadian Memory Lore. Canadian Ethnic Studies 27.2 (1995): 215-17.

 

Other:

with Jón Karl Helgason and Olga Holownia. Icelandic Online V: for advanced students, focussing on the student’s development in cultural literacy – 13 chapters, of which I developed and wrote four. Reykjavík: The University of Iceland, 11 December 2013. <icelandiconline.is/index.html>.

with Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir et al. Icelandic Online: an interactive educational website in Icelandic as a second language, including 600 exercises in total (grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, listening, reading and writing). Reykjavík: The University of Iceland, 27 August 2004. Icelandic Online II, 28 June 2005.  <www.icelandiconline.com>.