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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
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
SPÆ401M - Translation (Spanish)
SPÆ104G - Spanish for Tourism and Business
SPÆ405M - Latin American Literature: The 20th Century Novel
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
SPÆ102G - Conversation I
SPÆ110G - Composition I
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
,
Latin American
,
Latin American Studies
,
LASA - Latin
Society of
,
Latin American Studies
,
SLAS - Society
Research Community
,
Latin America. Home
,
Community on Latin
The Vigdís
,
The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
,
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
2023
Repensar el sujeto femenino: Transformación social en el cine de Esteban Ramírez
Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericnos
Frumbyggjaljóð frá Rómönsku Ameríku
Són: tímarit um óðfræði
Eftirlendur, arðrán og umhverfi: Stigveldi baráttunnar gegn loftslagsbreytingum í Rómönsku Ameríku
The Latin American Avant-Garde: Innovative Central American Women Writers
Artic & Antactic
2022
Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022
Drög að kortlagningu spænsku á Íslandi
Milli mála
Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022
Preface
Innsýn og aukin færni: Að "lesa" menningu þjóða með aðstoð kvikmynda
Milli mála
Þrautseigar og þora!
Ritið
Easy as ABC: using LARA to build multimedia alphabet books
EUROCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data
EUROCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data
Using LARA to create annotated manuscripts and inscriptions for museums: an initial feasibility study
Computer-assisted pronunciation training in Icelandic (CAPTinI): developing a method for quantifying mispronunciation in L2 speech
Using learner data from Duolingo to detect micro- and macroscopic granularity through machine learning methods to capture the language learning journey
2021
Sjálfs- og spegilmyndir í ritsmíðum kvenna frá Mið-Ameríku.
Nuevas voces femeninas panamenas. Deconstrucción de lo mitos de la pasividad erótica y el deseo de ser madre.
Centroamericana
2019
Human Trafficking in Latin America: Two applicable measures to reduce the demand
Arctic & Antarctic: International journal of circumpolar sociocultural issues
Ante la indiferencia: Representaciones visuales que reafirman cómo la decepción utópica se vuelve distópica
BeLLS
2018
Ó, borg mín, borg
Ritið
„Borg er byggð. Og byggð er borg.“
Ritið
Voces de Islandia II
La sociedad da forma a la persona: Consecuencia de la violencia de género en Danzaré sobre su tumba (2011)
Líf og list Pablos Neruda
Representación fílmica de la migración centroamericana. Archivos verosímiles que confirman condiciones persistentes de exclusión y la falta de resoluciones políticas
Centroamericana, þemaheftinu: Centroamérica sin fronteras
´Borg er byggð. Og byggð er borg´: Inngangur að þema
Ritið
2017
Smásagnasafn: Voces de Islandia II: (Micro-Antología).
Contesting submissiveness: Susana Silvestre´s urban female subjects of the 1990s
Arctic & Antarctic: International journal of circumpolar sociocultural issues
2016
Central American Costal Identity: Multiple Faces of Mestizaje by the Costa Rican novelist Anacristina Rossi
Milli mála
Central American Coastal Identity Multiple Faces of Mestizaje in Narrative by the Costa Rican novelist Anacristna Rossi
Milli mála
El cine centroamericano y la feminización de la vulnerabilidad
"Las víctimas se vuelven victimarias": Consecuencias de la exclusión social en ´Danzaré sobre su tumba´
Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica
Creando subjetividades a través del arte cinematográfico. Historias sobre transformación personal en el cine centroamericano de los útlimos anos
Revista Latina de Sociología
2015
Uppstokkun staðalmynda um Rómönsku Ameríku: Áhrif þýðinga
Tranasmutación cultural como via fiable: Testimonios para todos los tiempos de Quince Duncan
Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos.
2014
Subjectivities in the Making: Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema
Translating a Continent: (Re)Creating Latin American Cultures and Images
(Re)Collecting Argenitina´s Recent Past: The Role of Literature
Journal of Linguistics and Literature Studies
Human rights revisited: Deceitful Job Offers and Human Trafficking in Argentina
Arctic & Antarctic: International journal of circumpolar sociocultural issues
2012
Yfir saltan mar: Þýðingar á ljóðum eftir Jorge Luis Borges.
Inngangur
El mundo femenino en la ´antipoesía´ de Nicanor Parra
Cuerpos y Fronteras en América Latina
[…] trabajando por el tiempo”: Argentinean society in need of its entire intellectual potential.
Arctic & Antarctic: International journal of circumpolar sociocultural issues
2011
Að skyggnast í skúmaskotin. Um fjölmenningarsamfélag við Karíbahafsströnd Kostaríku í verkum Anacristina Rossi
Milli mála
2010
Ríkjandi rótleysi: Dáðleysi ungra manna í mexíkóskum stórborgarmyndum
Ritið
2009
Speglun og spegilmyndir: Saga kvikmyndagerðar í Rómönsku Ameríku
Ritið
Æðsta form allra lista
2008
La mujer de color: Identidad y diáspora globalizadora de la subalternidad
Globalización y género en América Latina
2007
Félagsfræði tveggja heima
Lost in a Coerced Oblivion: Cristina Feijóo´s Blueprint Against Social Segregation
La nueva novela histórica argentina: La reconstrucción remediadora de Cristina Feijóo
Actas del I Congreso de Hispanistas Nórdicos. Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia
2006
El español en Islandia.
No reconocida: Una riqueza desconcertante en la narrativa de mujeres.
Mujeres latinoamericanas en movimiento.
2005
Tunglskinsbaðaðir stóðhestar: Ljóðagerð Federico García Lorca og viðtökur á Íslandi.
Heimur ljóðsins
Kvenlegar ásýndir Rómönsku Ameríku
Ritið
Transculturación paulatina: La integración del pueblo negro en la sociedad costarricense.
El Caribe Centroamericano. Instituto Renvall.
La reformulación de la identidad genérica en la narrativa de mujeres argentinas de fin de siglo XX.
2004
Dulmagn Vigdísar: Latnesk-amerískt töfraraunsæi eða alíslenskt dulsæi í verkum Vigdísar Grímsdóttur
Tímarit Máls og menningar
Literatura Latinoamericana Finisecular: Expresión local retorcida por una mirada global simplificadora
Realidades
2002
Turbulencias socio-económicas e identidad política en la novelística de Gloria Pampillo.
Aspacia II: Literatura de mujeres y mujeres en la literatura: tradición e innovación.
Að kallast á yfir Atlandshafið: Kvenfrelsi og bókmenntir kvenna í Rómönsku Ameríku
Ritið
2001
Literatura argentinade dos épocas: Revidión histórica Que altera el lugar designado a la mujer.
Anales-Nueva Época #3
Literatura argentina: Construcciones de género e identidad en las obras de Susana Silvestre
Lo público y lo privado: Género en América Latina. Serie-Haina # 3
1999
Literatura argentina: La recuperación histórica - la otra mitad.
Minutes of the 8th Colloquium of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
A fines del milenio: La constitución del sujeto femenino.
Minutes of the XIV Skandinaviska Romanistkongressen
1997
Mujeres argentinas: La protagonista
Actas de la Segunda Jornada Internacional de Literatura Argentina
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