Daisy L. Neijmann

Daisy (Désirée) L. Neijmann
Date of Birth: 1 December 1963
Telephone: 020 7679 3181 (work); 020 7272 8768 (home)
Fax: 020 7679 7750
E-mail: d.neijmann@ucl.ac.uk

Higher Education:

Doctoral Degree, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 1994
Dissertation title: “The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-
Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature”

Master of Arts Degree, Free University of Amsterdam, August 1988 (cum laude)
Major: English Language and Literature
Minor: Old and Modern Icelandic Language and Literature (University of Amsterdam)

Propaedeutic Degree in English Language and Literature (first degree programme)
Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 1983

Employment:

1 October 1999>:
Halldór Laxness Lecturer in Modern Icelandic Language and Literature
Employer: Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.

1 September 1994 - 31 August 1999:
Assistant Professor in Icelandic-Canadian Studies
Employer: Department of Icelandic Language and Literature, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

August 1991 - January 1994:
Research Assistant, English Department, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Employer: The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

January 1989 - August 1989; August 1990 - August 1991:
Teacher at the Framhaldsskólinn in Húsavík, Iceland
Employer: Framhaldsskólinn of Húsavík / Government of Iceland
Subjects taught: English, French and German, incl. adult education (evening language classes).

Professional Development Projects

- Member of the Higher Education Academy (formerly ILT) 2002>
- Participant in development of Icelandic Online, a multimedia online Icelandic course for
beginners <http://www.icelandic.hi.is>.
- Participant in Bragi: Icelandic as a Foreign Language European web project <http://www.hu-
berlin.de/bragi>

Publications:

 

(Books)

- Colloquial Icelandic: A Complete Course for Beginners (book and CD/cassettes). London/New

York: Routledge 2001.
- The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997.

(Editions)

- Ed. and intro. A History of Icelandic Literature. Vol. 5 in Histories of Icelandic Literature. Ed. Sven Rossel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. [forthcoming]
- Ed. Perkensian Rambles: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Richard Perkins. London: Department of Scandinavian Studies/UCL, 2005.
- Ed. and intro. with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. The Silent Music of the Clouds: 100 Years with Halldór Laxness. Scandinavica Special Issue Vol. 42. No. 1 (May 2003). 204 pp.

(Articles)

- “’New’ Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic Cultural Identity.” In Centring on the Peripheries. Eds. Bjarne Thomsen et.al. Norwich: Norvik Press, 2006. [forthcoming]
- “Icelandic Canadian Literature.” In A History of Icelandic Literature. Ed. Daisy Neijmann. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 608-642. [forthcoming]
- “In Search of an Icelandic Literature: The History and Practice of Early Icelandic Literary Historiography.” Scandinavica 45.1 (May 2006): 43-73.
- “Laura Goodman Salverson”. The Literary Encyclopedia: Literature in English around the World. Ed. Robert Clark. <http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com>.
-“’Many Masks Merge in an Island Face’: Re-imagining an Orcadian Past.” In Words in their Places: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie. Eds. Henk Aertsen, Mike Hannay and Rod Lyall. Amsterdam: VU Press, 2004. Pp. 111-122.
- “‘Cracking the Boundaries’: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature.” In Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Eds. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton and Domenic A. Beneventi. Essay Series 49. Toronto/Lancaster: Guernica, 2004. Pp. 56-77.
- “Laura ’Lárusdóttir’ Salverson: Walking in the Narrative Ways of the Father.” In Rediscovering Canadian Difference. Ed. Gudrun Björk Gudsteins. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 17. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press, 2001. Pp. 153-164.
- “‘Beyond Icelandic’: Teaching in a Heritage Language and Literature Department.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 13 (2000-2001): 62-73.
- “Damned with Faint Praise: The Reception of Laura Goodman Salverson’s Works by the Icelandic Canadian Community.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 12 (1999): 40-62.
- “Fighting with Blunt Swords: Laura Goodman Salverson and the Beginnings of a Canadian Literary Canon.” Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (Summer 1999): 138-73.
- “Icelandic-Canadian Literature And Anglophone Minority Writing In Canada.” World Literature Today 73.2 (Spring 1999): 245-55.
- “Laura Goodman Salverson and the Marginalization of Ethnic-Canadian Female Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature.” Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Literature & Criticism. Ed. Jørn Carlsen. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 12. Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus, 1998. Pp. 163-82.
- “Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 10 (1997): 53-75.
- “In Search of the Canadian Icelander: Writing an Icelandic-Canadian Identity into Canadian Literature.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 29.3 (1997): 64-74.
- With David G. Delafenetre. “The Netherlandic and Scandinavian Transition in Canada: A Sociological and Literary Perspective.” International Journal for Canadian Studies 15 (Spring 1997): 209-30.
- “A Failure of Imagination? Icelandic-Canadian Literary Culture in the ‘Canadian Mosaic’.” In Chicago/Amsterdam, A Man of Two Cities: Essays in Memoriam of August J. Fry. Eds. Henk Aertsen and Richard Todd. Amsterdam: VU Press 1996. Pp. 73-91. ISBN 90-5383-474 5.
- “Islenska röddin í kanadískum bókmenntum.” Skírnir (Spring 1996): 145-71.
- “Laura Goodman Salverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Canadian Authors.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 8 (1995): 19-36.

(Translations)

- with T. Buijs. De Saga van Gisli Surszoon. Elden: Horse-Shoe Publishing, 2005. 216 pp.
- Intro. and tr. with T. Buijs. De Saga van Grettir. Elden: Horseshoe Publishing, 2002. 288 pp.

Papers and Lectures:

- “Að ’þýða’ íslenska menningu: aðdráttarafl, túlkun og viðtökur erlendis.” Ráðstefna um kennslu í íslensku sem erlendu/öðru tungumáli. University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 17-19 August 2006.
- “Rewriting Icelandic Literary History”. 1st Annual Research Symposium, UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies, London, Tuesday 25 April 2006.
- “Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Challenging Concepts of Canadian Identity”. Annual Conference of the Centre of Canadian Studies, in collaboration with BACS and the London Conference for Canadian Studies, Canada House, London, 11-12 February 2005.
-“‘Girl Interrupting’: Art and Clairvoyance in the Fiction of Vigdís Grímsdóttir”. Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 29 – 31 May 2003.
- “Make-Believe Games, Factual Dreams and Family Ghosts: Magic-Realist Strategies in the Fiction of Some Contemporary Icelandic Women Writers”. Gender, Power, Text: Scandinavian Culture in the 20th Century Conference, University College London, 13-14 June 2002.
- “Writing an Icelandic Self-Tutor”. Annual Meeting of Icelandic Lecturers at Foreign Universities, University of Copenhagen/Amager, 24-25 May 2002.
- “’New’ Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic Cultural Identity.” Centring on the Peripheries Conference, University of Edinburgh, 14-16 March 2002.
- “Icelandic-Canadian Studies: Academic Subject and Heritage Icon.” Vinland Ahead Conference, Þjóðmenningarhúsið (Culture House), Reykjavik, 31 August-2 September 2000.
- “The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Literature.” Postgraduate Seminar, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. 9 Dec. 1999.
- “Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature.” Nordic Literature Group Seminar, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. 4 Dec. 1999.
- “Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Challenges To The Mainstream.” 17th Conference of the AASSC, University of Ottawa. 28-30 May 1998.
- “The Icelanders in Manitoba.” Lecture. Danish Heritage Seminar, Country Resort Gimli, Man. 20 May 1998.
- “‘Cracking the Boundaries’: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature.” ‘The Third Solitude’: Canadian Minority Writing Conference, Université de Montréal. 19-21 March 1998.
- “The Icelanders in Canada.” Lecture. Creative Retirement, Mosaic Lecture Series. Winnipeg,
5 March 1998.
- “Laura Goodman Salverson and the Western Icelandic Literary Tradition.” The Icelanders in Canada: A Story of Integration, A Symposium on Icelandic-Canadian Studies. Gimli, Man., 24 May 1997.
“Laura Goodman Salverson and the Marginalization of Ethnic-Canadian Female Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature.” The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Tri-Annual Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark. 15-18 August 1996
- “In Search of the Canadian Icelander: The Re-Invention of Icelandic Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature.” The Icelandic Connection Conference, Red Deer College, Alberta. 20-22 October 1995.
- “Laura Goodman Salverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Immigrant Writers in Canada.” 13th Conference of the AASSC, University of Calgary, June 1994.
- “The Icelandic Tradition in Canadian Literature.” Letterkundekring, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. 11 February 1993.

Miscellaneous:

- Reader for Norvik Press, 2006>.
- External assessor (Government of Iceland/Department of Culture and Education Representative) for the appointment of a (new) lectureship in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Iceland, September - November 2005.
- Membership of research sponsor evaluation panel for The Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís), October 2004.
- Icelandic Consultant for Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2002>
- External examiner, Old Norse final paper, English Department, University College London, 2000>
- Reader for Cambridge University Press, 2002>
- Reader for Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Reader for University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- External examiner, M.A. Thesis, Interdisciplinary Studies Programme (Translation), University of Manitoba, Spring 1999.
- External examiner, M.A. Defence, English Department, University of Manitoba, 21 August 1997.
- Examiner, Icelandic Language Examination (Ph.D Language Requirement), English Department, University of Arizona, 19 December 1996