I have been absent from here far too long. Other things have been preoccupying me; teaching, research, family, health problems, etc. Since last I wrote I have of course taught a few courses and done some writing, and attended quite a few conferences. Some memorable conferences are: Visualising the North<\/strong>, in Orkney (what a lovely place Orkney is), April 2016; Adaptations and History<\/strong>, in Oxford, September 2016; Adapting Medieval and Early Modern Culture<\/strong>, in Leicester in March last year; and Captivating Criminality 4: Detection, Public and Private, Past and Present<\/strong>, close to Bath in late June\/early July last summer. I wish I could write a bit about them all but let it suffice to say that I was talking about historical fiction at them all, for instance Hannah Kent's Burial Rites<\/em> and the historical novels of Elizabeth Fremantle.<\/p>\n

This term I am on sabbatical and now finally easing into proper writing gear. After teaching as much as I've been doing in the last couple of years, plus moving to a new office at work last summer, it has been necessary to stop a bit and ruminate on the next steps as far as research and research projects is concerned. I also went to Glasgow for almost two weeks at the end of January, to do some research there and to meet colleagues and attend a symposium on Muriel Spark, whose centenary it was on 1 February. After having thought things out a bit and talked to some people, I am now in the process of starting a project with some colleagues, and hope it will take off properly at some point in the latter half of this year. I have also started working on writing up some conference papers into articles\/book chapters. That will be my focus as far as research goes this term.<\/p>\n

I will let this suffice for today but want to post some nice photos from my conference trip to Orkney in 2016. I hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>
The Orphir Round Kirk, Orkney<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
Information on the Brough of Birsay<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
View towards Birsay<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
Drystone dyke at Orphir<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
Skara Brae<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
Ring of Brodgar<\/p><\/div>\n
$\"\"$ <\/a>
Orkney poets and artists' names inside St Magnus Cathedral<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been absent from here far too long. Other things have been preoccupying me; teaching, research, family, health problems, etc. Since last I wrote I have of course taught a few courses and done some writing, and attended quite a few conferences. Some memorable conferences are: Visualising the North, in Orkney (what a lovely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129770,129520,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-historical-fiction","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/ingibjoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}