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Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir - Professor
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School of Humanities
Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of Spanish - Latin American Literature and Cultures
Location
Veröld - Hús Vigdísar / VHV-336
Phone
525 - 5186
Email
holmfr [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Languages and Cultures
Published Work
Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
Tuesdays, 13-15 hrs.
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4564-8583
Research portal – Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
 
Courses 2023 - 2024
SPÆ401M - Translation (Spanish)
SPÆ412M - The Latin American Literature: Short stories
ENS237F - The Americas: Literature & Film
SPÆ241L - BA-thesis in Spanish
SPÆ261L - BA-thesis in Spanish
AME444L - Final Project in Applied Inter-American Studies
AME447L - Final Project in Inter-American Studies
SPÆ241L - BA-thesis in Spanish
SPÆ261L - BA-thesis in Spanish
AME303L - Final Project in Applied Inter-American Studies
AME306L - Final project in Inter-American Studies
Collaboration
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Latin American
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Latin American Studies
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LASA - Latin
Society of
,
Latin American Studies
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SLAS - Society
Research Community
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Latin America. Home
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Community on Latin
The Vigdís
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The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
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SVF - The
Education
2001
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Texas at Austin
,
Latin American Literature
1996
,
MA
,
University of Texas at Austin
,
Spanish (Hispanic Literature)
1993
,
Kennsluréttindi
,
University of Iceland
,
Teacher's Certificate in Foreign Languages
1988
,
BA
,
University of Iceland. Studies partly completed at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
,
Spanish
Professional Experience
2010 -
,
Professor,
Faculty of Foreign Languages School of Humanities
2012 -
2015,
Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Foreign Languages Literatures and Linguistics
2004 -
2010,
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Humanities
2004 -
2007,
Chair of Romance Languages,
Department of Romance and Classical Languages
2003 -
2004,
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Humanities
1998 -
2003,
Visiting Professor,
Faculty of Humanities
1994 -
1998,
Instructor of Spanish,
University of Texas at Austin
1990 -
1994,
Excetutive director,
Spanish Honorary Consulate in Iceland
Published works
2021
“Nuevas voces femeninas panameñas: Deconstrucción de los mitos de la pasividad erótica y el deseo de ser madre”
Centroamericana
Langt að komnar. Sögur kvenna frá Mið-Ameríku
SVF and University of Iceland Press
2019
Ante la indiferencia: Representaciones visuales que reafirman cómo la decepción utópica se vuelve distópica
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies
“Human Trafficking in Latin America: Two applicable measures to reduce the demand”
ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC International Journal of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues
2018
Pablo Neruda. Hafið starfar í þögn minni
SVF and University of Iceland Press
„´Borg er byggð. Og byggð er borg´. Inngangur að þema”.
Ritið
“La sociedad da forma a la persona: Consecuencias de la violencia de género en Danzaré sobre su tumba (2011)”.
History, Agency and Gendered Narratives / Historia y Agencia como fabulación.
Critical introduction: „Líf og list Pablos Neruda ” [Life and poetry of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda].
Hafið starfar í þögn minni
“Representación fílmica de la migración centroamericana. Archivos verosímiles que confirman condiciones persistentes de exclusión y la falta de resoluciones políticas”.
Centroamericana. Specialized issue titled Centroámerica sin fronteras.
2017
„Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation“ (Literary Review). Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén by Miguel Arnedo-Gómez.
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
“Contesting submissiveness: Susana Silvestre´s urban female subjects of the 1990s”.
Arctic & Antarctic: International Journal of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues,
2016
“Creando subjetividades a través del arte cinematográfico. Historias sobre transformación personal en el cine centroamericano de los últimos años”
RELASO, Revista Latina de Sociología, Universidad de Coruña, Spain.
“Las víctimas se vuelven victimarias”. Consecuencias de la exclusión social en Danzaré sobre su tumba (2011) de Villalta. Boletín de AFEHC (ISSN 1954-3891): Estudios críticos sobre narrativa centroamericana, 1990-2015. 2016.
Boletín de AFEHC (ISSN 1954-3891): Estudios críticos sobre narrativa centroamericana, 1990-2015.
“Central American Coastal Identity: Multiple Faces of Mestizaje by the Costa Rican novelist Anacristina Rossi”.
Milli mála, University of Iceland
2015
"El cine centroamericano y la feminización de la vulnerabilidad"
Pobreza, globalización y violencia en el cine latinoamericano del siglo XXI
"Uppstokkun staðalmynda um Rómönsku Ameríku: Áhrif þýðinga".
An Intimacy of Words
“Transmutación cultural como vía fiable: Testimonios para todos los tiempos de Quince Duncan”.
Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos
2014
Voces de Islandia (Micro-Antología).
"Translating a Continent: (Re) Creating Latin American Cultures and Images"
Nordic Responses: Translation, History, Literary Culture
"(Re) Collecting Argentinas´s recent past: The role of literature".
Horizon Research Publishing
"Human rights revisited: Deceitful Job Offers and Human Trafficking in Argentina"
Arctic & Antarctic: International Journal of circumpolar Sociocultural Issues
"Subjectivities in the Making: Tales of Transformation in recent Central American Cinema"
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema
2012
Jorge Luis borges. Yfir saltan mar
SVF and University of Iceland Press
"[...] trabajando por el tiempo": Argentinean society in need of its entire intellectual potential"
Arctic & Antarctic: International Journal of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues
Introdution: "Um æavi og störf Borgesar"
Yfir saltan mar: Þýðingar á ljóðum eftir Jorge Luis Borges.
Yfir saltan mar: Þýðingar á ljóðum eftir Jorge Luis Borges
2011
"Að skyggnast í skúmaskotin. Um fjölmenningarsamfélag við Karíbahafsströnd Kostaríku í verkum Anacristina Rossi"
Milli mála
2010
"La Obra Narrativa de David Vinas: La nueva inflexión de Prontario y Claudia Conversa"
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"Ríkjandi rótleysi: Dáðleysi ungra manna í mexíkóskum stórborgarmyndum".
Ritið
2009
"Æðsta form allra lista: Þróun spænskrar kvikmyndagerðar frá fálmkenndu upphafi til æ meiri fullkomnunar".
Milli mála
"education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World".
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"Speglun og spegilmyndir: Saga kvikmyndagerðar í Rómönsku Ameríku".
Ritið
2007
Félagsfræði rótfestunnar: Kenningar um uppruna og eðli borgarsamfélagsins.
"Lost in a coerced Oblivion: Cristina Feijóo´s Bluepring Against Social Segregation".
Argentinean Cultureal Production During the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001).
Federico García Lorca. Gustur úr djúpi nætur: Ljóðasaga Lorca á Íslandi
SVF and University of Iceland Press
Gustur úr djúpi nætur: Ljóðasaga Lorca á Islandi.
2006
Mujeres latinoamericanas en movimiento
2005
La reformulación de la identidad genérica en la narrativa de mujeres argentinas de fin de siglo XX
2001
At the End of a Millennium: The Argentinean Novel Written by Women
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