LITERAL ANIMALS

An exploration of animal worlds through language, culture and narrative.

[Ph.D. dissertation, 2016]

THE WORK

Three essays on animals and culture (in Icelandic).

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2016/1:

Animal Realism and Natural Science Fiction

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2016/2:

Bestial Pleasures

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2020/1:

Visible and Invisible Animals in Icelandic Animal Fiction

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​THE LIVES OF ANIMALS

Icelandic introduction to J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals.

Published by The Icelandic Literary Society in 2020.

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HUMAN VICTIM

IS ANIMAL

"Multimodal expressions of the HUMAN VICTIM IS ANIMAL metaphor in horror films"

An academic CHAPTprepared from the master's thesis in collaboration with dr. Charles J. Forceville

Appeared in Multimodal Metaphor (2009), editors C.J. Forceville and E. Urios-Aparisi.

ANIMAL HORROR

An investigation into animal rights, horror cinema and the double standards

of violent human behaviour.

[M.A. thesis, 2006]

THE MARGIN

A reflection on humans and animals.

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2012/3

Do Humans Dream About Living Animals?

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THE SILENCING OF ANIMALS

Article about "The Brown Dog Affair", animal protection and animal rights. Published in the July issue of Róstir 2010.

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SILHOUETTES IN A BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD

Criminalism, romance and the femme fatale

in Frank Miller's Sin City

[B.A. Thesis, 2005]