{"id":26,"date":"2010-05-25T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/gunnth\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:21:54","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/gunnth\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995\u20132000 PhD in Literature, Royal Holloway University of London<\/p>\n

1994\u20131995 MA in European and Comparative Literature, University of Kent<\/p>\n

1989\u20131992 BA in Comparative Literature and German, University of Iceland<\/p>\n

Appointments:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 2014 Professor in Comparative Literature. Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies. University of Iceland<\/p>\n

2009-2014 Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland<\/p>\n

2008\u20132010 Director, Institute of Literary Studies, University of Iceland<\/p>\n

2007\u20132009 Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland<\/p>\n

2004\u20132007 Adjunct in Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics, University of Iceland<\/p>\n

From 2003 Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London<\/p>\n

1997\u20132003 Part-time lecturing in Icelandic Language and Literature and European Literary Studies, Scandinavian Dept., Faculty of Arts and Humanities: European Cultural Studies, University College London<\/p>\n

Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction<\/em>, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Order here!<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The Online Self: Memory and Forgetting in the Digtial Age,\" European Journal of Life Writing <\/em>vol 3 (2014) http:\/\/ejlw.eu\/article\/view\/100<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Fake Memoir and Postmemory: The Aftermath of the Wilkomirski Scandal\u2019, Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art<\/em>, eds. Meg Jensen and Jane Jordan (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).<\/p>\n

\u2018Sj\u00e1lf \u00ed fr\u00e1s\u00f6gn: Um Fl\u00f6kkul\u00edf<\/em> og Framhaldsl\u00edf f\u00f6rumanns<\/em> eftir Hannes Sigf\u00fasson\u2019 (Self in Narrative: On the Autobiographical Works of an Icelandic Modernist Writer), Sk\u00edrnir,<\/em> Spring 2007, pp. 180\u2013197.<\/p>\n

\u2018Blekking og minni: Binjamin Wilkomirski og helfararfr\u00e1sagnir\u2019 (Fraud and Memory: Binjamin Wilkomirski and Holocaust Narratives), Riti\u00f0: Journal of the Humanities Institute<\/em>, 2006:1<\/p>\n

\u2018A\u00f0 eiga annars \u00e6vi \u00ed lj\u00f3\u00f0i: Um Birthday Letters<\/em> eftir Ted Hughes\u2019 (Possessing another\u2019s life in poems: On Birthday Letters<\/em> by Ted Hughes), Heimur lj\u00f3\u00f0sins<\/em>, eds. \u00c1str\u00e1\u00f0ur Eysteinsson, Dagn\u00fd Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir and Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, Reykjav\u00edk: University of Iceland Literary Institute, 2005, pp. 160-166<\/p>\n

\u2018Eins og \u00feessi mynd s\u00fdnir. . . Falsa\u00f0ar lj\u00f3smyndir og sk\u00e1ldskapur \u00e1 lj\u00f3smynd\u2019 (As this photograph shows\u2026 Fake photographs and fiction in photography), Riti\u00f0: Journal of the Humanities Institute,<\/em> 2004:3, pp. 27-50<\/p>\n

Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing<\/em> (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003).<\/p>\n

\u2018Becoming a Writer: Halld\u00f3r Laxness and the Memoir\u2019, Scandinavica<\/em> Spring 2003, pp. 95\u2013108.<\/p>\n

Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Autobiography, life writing, photography, memory studies, trauma studies, writers' lives, contemporary literature, French literature, comparative literature<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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