Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature and Executive Director of the New Chaucer Society. She has held several honorary fellowships, including a Visiting Research Fellowship at St John’s College, University of Oxford in 2022, a Visiting Professorship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018, and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2011. She was Chair of Comparative Literature 2019-2022 and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts 2020-2023 and the President of the Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society 2016-2018. Her research is focused on cross-cultural and comparative studies of medieval literature, emotion theory, particularly literary emotionality, literary history, translation studies, voice and gender.
Published books
Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.
An examination of what the translations of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures.
Co-edited with Raluca Radulescu.
Co-edited with Helen Fulton.
Co-edited with Louise D´Arcens.
Co-edited with Massimiliano Bampi and Carolyne Larrington.
Selected honours and awards
St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK
Visiting Research Fellow (spring 2020)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Visiting Professor (fall 2018)
University of Edinburgh, UK
Northern Scholars Lecturer 2016 (see here)
University of Bristol, UK
Visiting Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies and The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (Oct 2015)
University of Cambridge, UK
Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Honourary Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (2011)
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Mellon Fellowship for Research in original sources in the Humanities (2005)
