Notes on Contributors
Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir
is Lecturer in Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. She holds a PhD in Icelandic literature and her dissertation (2019) focused on queer themes in the works of Elías Mar from the mid-twentieth century. Her current research is on contemporary Icelandic literature, queer literature and queer history.
John Brannigan
is Professor of English and Head of the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. He is the author of Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890–1970 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
Lucy Collins
is Associate Professor of Modern Poetry at University College Dublin. Books include Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870–1970 (2012) and a monograph, Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015), both from Liverpool University Press. She has published widely on twentieth-century poets from Ireland, Britain and America, and is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository.
Sharae Deckard
is Associate Professor in World Literature at University College Dublin. Her research intersects world-ecology and world-systems approaches to literature. Recent publications include a special issue of the Irish University Review (49.1) on “Food, Energy, Climate: Irish Culture and World-Ecology,” as well as an issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research on “Ireland in the World-System” (22.1). With Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, she is the academic editor of Palgrave’s New Comparisons in World Literature series.
Fionnuala Dillane
is Professor at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century print cultures, crime fiction and memory studies. She is co-editor of 5 collections of essays, including The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (2016) and Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and Empire (2018), and author of Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (2013).
is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and Director of the Dublin James Joyce Sumer School. She has co-edited, with Timothy Martin, Joyce on the Threshold (2005); with Morris Beja, Bloomsday 100: Essays on “Ulysses” (2009); and with Fran O’Rourke, Voices on Joyce (2015). She has published widely on aspects of twentieth-and twenty-first-century Irish writing and is currently completing a new edition of Dubliners for Penguin.
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her research interests include life writing, memory studies and contemporary literature. She has published widely on these issues, including her two books, Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern and Life Writing (2003) and Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (2017). Her most recent work is the edited volume Noir in the North: Genre, Politics, Place (2020).
Daisy Neijmann
holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was Assistant Professor in Icelandic-Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba and Reader in Icelandic at ucl, and currently teaches Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. She has published widely on modern Icelandic fiction, Icelandic literary historiography, war memory and trauma texts, Icelandic-Canadian literature and Icelandic as a second and heritage language.
Paul Rouse
is Professor in the School of History at University College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of Irish sport. His books include Sport and Ireland: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015) and The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling (Penguin, 2018).
Gísli Sigurðsson
is Research Professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute and has served as a Visiting Professor in Winnipeg, Stavanger and Berkeley. He works on orality and textualisation. Gísli has published monographs on Gaelic influence in Iceland and oral tradition and the sagas; edited Eddic poetry and settlement lore from North America; and curated exhibitions. He now works on ethnic astronomy in the Eddas.