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Sif Ríkharðsdóttir - Professor
–
Hugvísindasvið
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
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Aðalbygging / A-328
Phone
525 - 4446
Email
sifr [at] hi.is
Unit
Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website
http://uni.hi.is/sifr/
Consultation hours
Wednesdays 10-11
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5727-3435
Research portal – Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Courses 2024 - 2025
ABF724F - Seminar: Literary Emotionality and the ‘History of Emotions’
ABF725F - Seminar project: Literary Emotionality and the ‘History of Emotions’
Collaboration
,
Education
,
BA
,
University of Konstanz, Germany
,
Comparative Literature
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
Comparative Literature and Icelandic
,
MA
,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
,
Comparative Literature and German
,
Ph.D.
,
Washington University, St. Louis
,
Comparative Literature and English
Professional Experience
2011 -
,
Visiting Fellow,
Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
2017 -
,
Professor,
University of Iceland
2014 -
2017,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland
2012 -
2014,
Assistant Professor,
University of Iceland
2011 -
2012,
Research Fellow,
Centre for Research in the Humanities
Published works
2024
Emotion and the Medieval Self
Emotions: History, Culture, Society
Affect and emotion
2023
Antiochus
Denmark
Cacus, Kacus
2022
Voice, Materiality and History in
St Erkenwald
and
Egils saga Skallagrímssonar
Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds
The Routledge companion to medieval English literature
The modern Middle Ages
Introduction
Introduction
Medieval Literary Voices
Menningarstraumar og menningararfur
Introduction
The Norse Roland in Context
Literary gateways
The Venetian gateway
General introduction
The forms of literature
2021
Oceanic networks
2020
Introduction to Genre
Poetic Sensorium and Aesthetic Objectification in the Middle English Pearl
Exemplaria
The Margins of Literary History: Sagas, Eddic Poetry and World Literature
Annotated Taxonomy of Genres
Translating Emotion
Fortid
Hybridity
A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre
2019
Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Empire of Emotion: The Formation of Emotive Literary Identities and Mentalities in the North
2018
The Phantom of a Romance: Traces of Romance Transmission and the Question of Originality
Örgrein um þýðingar: Orð, merkingarbærni og Vǫluspá
2017
Medieval emotionality
Comparative Literature
Emotion in Old Norse Literature
Emotion in Old Norse Literature
Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts
Chronology, anachronism and translatio imperii
2016
Fræðinæmi
2015
The Bookish Riddarasögur: Writing Romancer in Late Medieval Iceland
Saga-Book
Arthur of the North: Histories, Emotions, and Imaginations
Translating Emotion: Vocalisation and Embodiment in Yvain and Ívens saga
Arthur of the North
Scandinavian Studies
2014
Affective Literacies: Writing and Multilingualism in the Late Middle Ages
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
The Gawain Poet
2013
Francia et Germania: Studies in
Strengleikar
and
Þiðreks saga af Bern
Saga-Book
État présent: Arthurian Literature in the North
Journal of the International Arthurian Society
2012
The Arthur of the North. The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms
The Medieval Review
Tiodielis saga
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Hugræn fræði, tilfinningar og miðaldir
Ritið
2010
Meykóngahefðin í riddarasögum. Hugmyndafræðileg átök um kynhlutverk og þjóðfélagsstöðu
Skírnir
2008
The imperial implications of medieval translations
Studies in Philology
2007
Fragments of Danish History
ANQ - Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews
2005
Medieval translations and cultural discourse
Bound by Culture. A Comparative Study of the Old French and Old Norse Versions of La Chanson de Roland
Mediaevalia. Translation in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Survival of Culture
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