{"id":139,"date":"2012-01-03T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ehh\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:40:16","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ehh\/english-2\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For almost three decades my work and research has centered on women\u2019s and gender history. I have participated in national, Nordic and European research projects and networks in the field of history and gender studies, both as a historian and in relation with my work as the director of The Women\u2019s History Archives in Iceland 1996\u20132001 and as a specialist at The Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at the University of Iceland 2001\u20132005. I was a part time teacher at the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology at the University of Iceland during my doctoral and postdoctral studies. Since 2016 I've held a position in women's and gender history, as a professor since 2020.<\/p>\n

My publication has been in the fields\u00a0 women's and gender history, biography, correspondence, and (women's) historiography.<\/p>\n

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Among my works in English are articles in Life Writing<\/em> (2010<\/a>, 2015<\/a>) and Women's History Review<\/em><\/a> (2018). I co-edited Biography, Gender, and History: Nordic Perspectives<\/em><\/a> (2016) and have published chapters in The Palgrave Handbook of Auto\/Biography<\/em><\/a> (2020) and Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordic and Beyond<\/em> (2024).<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

My books in Icelandic are the above-mentioned N\u00fat\u00edmans konur<\/em> (see English Summary<\/a>)<\/span>, in which I explore women's education and the construction of gender in late 19th century Iceland.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2020 I co-authored Konur sem kj\u00f3sa. Aldarsaga<\/em><\/a> (A Centenary of Women Voters), a study on women's political and cultural practices and agency in 20th-century Iceland. My co-authors are fellow historians Krist\u00edn Svava T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir and \u00deorger\u00f0ur H. \u00deorvaldsd\u00f3ttir. The book was partly based on the project\u00a0In\u00a0the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as cultural and political agents, 1915-2015<\/em>, funded by Rannis, The Icelandic Research Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2023 I published \u00c9g er \u00feinn elskari <\/em>(I Am Your Lover. Baldvin Einarsson's Letters to Kristr\u00fan J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, 1825\u20131832<\/a>), which is edited transcription of 19th century love letters with a scholarly introduction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2024 I published an extensive historical biography of a 19th century Icelandic woman, Str\u00e1 fyrir straumi<\/em> (Flowing With The Water. The Life of Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir, 1809\u20131871). This is a book about he life and letters of Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir who left a record of her life in the form of 250 letters she wrote to her brother for more than half a century. These letters cover a lifetime and give invaluable insight into the daily life and experiences of a woman living in an agricultural society, with a population of 59.000 people in 1850, and still not affected by industrialization or urbanization. The book was nominated to several literary prizes and won the Hag\u00feenkir (the Association of Icelandic Non-fiction Writers) 2024 Literary Prize for academic work of outstanding quality.<\/p>\n

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