Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Career. Sif Ríkharðsdóttir was appointed as Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland in 2012. Before that she was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2011). She has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland since 2017. Her research is mainly focused on European medieval literature, the history of emotion and emotion research, cultural studies and research on cultural transmission, translations and gender studies. Her books and articles have appeared in the UK, in Iceland, in  the US and in Germany. Sif has held multiple administrative appointments, including as the Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland, as Head of the Graduate Studies Committee, and as a board member of the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. She has chaired and set on several local and international expert panels for research funding agencies, including the Icelandic Research Fund, HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), the Irish Research Council and the National Science Centre of Poland. She was the President of the Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society and has been actively  involved in the Medieval Academy of America. She is the Series Editor of Studies in Old Norse Literature at Boydell & Brewer with Carolyne Larrington and sits on the editorial board of the series Philologica Classica e Medievale at L’Erma di Bretschneider in Rome in Italy. Sif has received various honours and awards, including a Mellon Fellowship as well as Visiting Fellowships or Professorships at the University of Venice, University of Bristol, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and she was the Northern Scholars Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. She has been involved in multiple international research projects. including : "„Emotion and the Medieval Self in Northern Europe“", led by Sif and funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (RANNÍS); and the project "„Charlemagne: A European Icon“", led by Marianne Ailes and funded by the Leverhulme Trust in UK.