ACADEMIC POSITION

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature and Executive Director of the New Chaucer Society. She has held several honorary fellowships, including a Visiting Research Fellowship at St John's College, University of Oxford in 2022, a Visiting Professorship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018, and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2011. She was Chair of Comparative Literature 2019-2022 and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts 2020-2023 and the President of the Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society 2016-2018. Her research is focused on cross-cultural and comparative studies of medieval literature, emotion theory, particularly literary emotionality, literary history, translation studies, voice and gender.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature in a Trans-European Context, 1100-1500 (2023) – Commissioned volume co-edited with Raluca Radulescu featuring a companion to English literary history from a trans-European perspective. The volume contains roughly 40 chapters and ranges widely across Europe and beyond, including both theoretical approaches to medieval literature and an in-depth exploration of the complex global networks in the Middle Ages and the relevant social, political and economic contexts of literary production. See here for a preview of the book!

Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2022) – Features a collaboration with Helen Fulton on the legend of Charlemagne within the Celtic and Norse linguistic realm.  See the volume here! A flyer with a discount offer can be found here: Flyer-Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds. The edition forms part of an international research project on 'Charlemagne: A European Icon' led by Marianne Ailes and funded by the Leverhulme Trust (see project website).

Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (2022) – A co-edited volume with Louise D'Arcens that offers novel approaches to medieval literature –in particular Middle English literature – through the analysis of literary voices as embodied or ephemeral phenomenon, or via their textual, visual or performative materialisation both in the past and in the present. See the volume here!

SELECTED HONOURS AND AWARDS

St John's College, University of Oxford, UK
Visiting Research Fellow (spring 2020)

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Visiting Professor (fall 2018)

University of Edinburgh, UK
Northern Scholars Lecturer 2016 (see here)

University of Bristol, UK
Visiting Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies and The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (Oct 2015)

University of Cambridge, UK
Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Honourary Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (2011)

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Mellon Fellowship for Research in original sources in the Humanities (2005)