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Research interests<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n My research interests are in the following areas:<\/p>\n Literature<\/strong>: Icelandic literature of the 20th and 21st century (particularly fiction); war and occupation literature, literatures of memory and trauma, Icelandic-Canadian literature, Canadian and minority literatures. In all of these, the role of cultural and national identity is of particular interest to me, as is a transcultural approach. Based on my research in peripheral and minority literatures in Canada, I have, in recent years, also developed an interest in island literatures and cultures, as well as in the role and mediation of North in literature<\/p>\n Language<\/strong>: Icelandic as a second language, Icelandic as a heritage language, Heritage Language Studies. I am primarily interested in the teaching methodologies and materials for second and heritage languages from a cultural and literary perspective, the role of literature, culture and cultural identity in second and heritage language teaching<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Research projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In recent years, much of my research has focussed on war and occupation literature and literatures of memory and trauma, particularly in an Icelandic context. In 2007 I received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to start this research, and since then its progression has benefitted from the financial support of an EDDA Research Grant (2011-21: \u201eMemory and Forgetting: Ruptures, Gaps, National Identity\u201d), participation in the COST-action \u201cIn Search of Transcultural memory in Europe\u201d (2013-2017) led by Barbara T\u00f6rnquist-Plewa, and, not least, co-operation with Gunn\u00fe\u00f3runn Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/a>. I am currently working on a book on this topic.<\/p>\n