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

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iceland, 2016. Supervisor: Guðni Elísson.

Full dissertation available here. 

A Digital Animal Story. 

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Academic chapter from the anthology Squirreling: Human-Animal Studies in the Northern European Region. Editors: Amelie Björck and Ann-Sofie Lönngren.

Full book available for download here.

Three essays on animals and culture (Icelandic only).

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2016/1: Realist Animals and Natural Science Fiction

​2016/2: Animal Pleasures

​2020/1: Visible and Invisible Animals in Icelandic Animal Fiction

Essay touching on the "Brown Dog Affair", animal welfare and animal rights (Icelandic only).

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2010/06: The Silence of Animals

Criminalism, romance and the femme fatale in Frank Miller's Sin City.

B.A. Thesis in Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland, 2005. Supervisor: Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir.

Full thesis available here (Icelandic only).

An investigation into animal rights, horror cinema and the double standards of violent human behaviour.

M.A. in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam, 2006. Supervisor: Franca Jonquiere.

Full thesis available here.

Introduction to the Icelandic edition of J.M. Coetzee's The Lives Of Animals. Published by the Icelandic Literary Society in 2020. More info here (Icelandic only).

Some thoughts on animals, humans and science fiction (Icelandic only).

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2012/3: Dreams of Animal Life

Academic chapter on animals and horror cinema, reworked from my M.A.-thesis in collaboration with Charles Forceville. Published in Multimodal Metaphor (2009). Editors: Charles Forceville og E. Urios-Aparisi:

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