Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

Dr Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir (Director, University of Iceland) is a Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. She holds a PhD from the University of London and her main research interests are in the field of life writing and memory studies. She has published widely in this area, two monographs Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing (Rodopi, 2003) and Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (Palgrave, 2017) and two edited volumes which were the results of projects initiated by the Centre: Noir in the North: Genre, Politics,

Place (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Iceland-Ireland: Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery (Brill, 2022) co-edited with Fionnuala Dillane, as well as several book chapters and essays. She was associate editor of Contemporary Women’s Writing (OUP) from 2015-2023, has taken part in several international research projects, and served as MC member for two COST actions. She was Visiting Professor at University College Dublin in 2018. She is on the board of the Nordic regional group for the Memory Studies Association, and is an active member of the Memory Studies Association and International Auto/Biography Association (Europe).