Daisy Neijmann

Dr Daisy Neijmann (University of Iceland) holds a Ph.D from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and was Assistant- Professor in Icelandic-Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba for five years, Canada, and Halldór Laxness Lecturer, later Reader, in Icelandic language and literature at University College London for twelve years. She has been teaching at the University of Iceland since 2011, and has been researching memory and trauma in relation to literature of war and occupation. She has also been involved in a research project with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir on memory and forgetting. Recent publications include: “’A Fabulous Potency’: Masculinity in Icelandic War Literature.” Men at War: Masculininies, Identities, Cultures. Eds. S.P. McVeigh og N. Cooper. London: Routledge [forthcoming 2012], “’Hringsól um dulinn kjarna.’ Minni og gleymska í þríleik Ólafs Jóhanns Sigurðssonar. ” Ritið, Spring 2012, and “’Óboðinn gestur: Fyrstu birtingarmyndir hernámsins í íslenskum skáldsögum.” Skírnir 185 (Spring 2011): 64-88.