Gylfi Gunnlaugsson

Gylfi Gunnlaugsson
Melbæ 10
110 Reykjavík
Iceland
email: gylfigun@centrum.is

Education

Upper-secondary school graduation certificate, Hamrahlíð Upper-Secondary School, Reykjavík, 1971.
BA degree in Comparative Literature and Icelandic, 1978.
Courses in literary theory at the University of Copenhagen, 1980.
Cand. mag. degree in Icelandic Literature, 1990.
Short course in academic teaching, University of Iceland’s Department of Continuing Education.

Teaching experience

Lecturer in Icelandic at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1990-1994.
Staff teacher in Icelandic as a Foreign Language, University of Iceland, spring 1997.
Staff teacher at MA level in Department of Icelandic at the University of Iceland, spring 1998 (planned and taught own course: Rómantík og þjóðernisvakning – “Romanticism and the Advent of Nationalism”).
Participation in course on images and the exotic, Icelandic Academy of the Arts, autumn 2001.
Supervision of tests for reporters, Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-2002 (along with others).
Instruction in academic writing at a course on academic working practices, held by the University of Iceland’s Department for Continuing Education and the Reykjavík Academy, 1999-2003.

Management

Managing Director of Silva tré og stál hf., 1984-1989.

Academic writing

Innviðir Græna hússins. (“Composition of The Green House.”) Unpublished BA thesis in Comparative Literature for the University of Iceland, 1977. 47 pages.
Syndafallið. Um hugmyndafræði í Músinni sem læðist eftir Guðberg Bergsson. (“Fall from Grace. On the ideology in Músin sem læðist (novel) by Guðbergur Bergsson.”) Unpublished BA thesis in Icelandic for the University of Iceland, 1978. 56 pages.
Um Gerplu Halldórs Laxness. (“On Gerpla (novel) by Halldór Laxness.”) Unpublished cand. mag. thesis in Icelandic Literature for the University of Iceland, 1990. 112 pages.
„Isländische Neuerscheinungen 1989-1990“. Lecture given at a symposium on new Nordic literature at the University of Kiel, spring 1991.
“Vésteinn Ólason (Red.): Íslensk bókmenntasaga I”. Scandinavica magazine 34/1 (1995), pages 119-22. Review.
„Endurhljómur fornbókmennta í 19. aldar rómantík“. (“The Echo of Old Norse Literature in 19th Century Romanticism”). Lecture given at the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, December 1996.
„„Da ritten einst Helden durchs Land“. Zum Widerhall der Eddas und Sagas in der isländischen Romantik“. Lecture given in the Nordic Departments at the Universities of Erlangen, Greifswald, Kiel and Munich, in June and July 1997.
„„Að draga fornöldina niður til vorra daga“. Matthías Jochumsson og fornbókmenntirnar“. (“‘Dragging the ancient past down to our times.’ Matthías Jochumsson and Old Norse literature”). Lecture held at the Reykjavík Academy, 31 May 2000.
„Gagnvirk áhrif: Innlegg í framandleikaumræðu“. (“Mutual Influences: Some thoughts on discussions of the exotic”). Lecture held at the Reykjavík Academy, 13 February 2001.
„Hrifla um Landnemann mikla eftir Viðar Hreinsson“. (“Short Review of Landneminn mikli by Viðar Hreinsson”). E-Zine Kistan.is, December 2002.
“Benedikt Gröndal (Sveinbjarnarson)”. Dictionary of Literary Biography 293: Icelandic Writers. Edited by Patrick J. Stevens. Columbia SC 2004. Pages 3-16.
“Grímur Thomsen”. Dictionary of Literary Biography 293: Icelandic Writers. Edited by Patrick J. Stevens. Columbia SC 2004. Pages 60-69.
„Heidnische Romantik, nordischer Geist. Die Aufsätze von Grímur Thomsen zur altnordischen Literatur und ihrer Aktualität“. Lecture given at the international symposium Nördlichkeit – Romantik – Erhabenheit at the University of Kiel, March 2005. (The proceedings of the symposium are forthcoming in the series Imaginatio borealis / Bilder des Nordens, edited by Olaf Mörke.)
”You, Grettir, are My Nation”. On Matthías Jochumsson’s Grettisljóð”. Lecture given at the international symposium Det norrøne og det nationale at the University of Iceland, March 2006. (The proceedings of the symposium are forthcoming.)
Work in progress, on the perspective of Old Norse literature and its usage in Icelandic literature 1750-1900, 350 pages. Project completion and publication expected 2007.
Article in progress, on the religious views of essayist and poet Grímur Thomsen, 40-50 pages. Project completion and publication expected 2007.

Consultation and service

On the consultory board for “Nordische Literaturtage” under the auspices of the Culture Ministry of Schleswig-Holstein, 1993.
Consultant on grant application for RANNÍS (The Icelandic Centre for Research), 1998.
Language consultant for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service and others, 2000-2002.
Professional consultation on standardised testing in Icelandic for the Educational Testing Institute of Iceland, 2004.

Grants

The Science Fund, 1995-1999, approximately ISK 4,000,000 in total.
Hagþenkir, Union of Icelandic non-fiction writers, 2003, ISK 150,000
The non-fiction writers’ salary fund, 2003, ISK 1,357,614
The non-fiction writers’ salary fund, 2004, ISK 1,398,342
The Millennium of Christianity Fund, 2005, ISK 1,000,000