Daisy L. Neijmann
Publications

Books

Colloquial Icelandic: A Complete Course for Beginners (book and CD/cassettes). London/New York: Routledge 2001. ISBN 0-415-20708-8.

The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-88629-317-0.

Editions

Ed. and intro. A History of Icelandic Literature. Vol. 5 in Histories of Icelandic Literature. Ed. Sven Rossel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-8032-3346-1.

Ed. Perkensian Rambles: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Richard Perkins. London: Department of Scandinavian Studies/UCL, 2005.

Ed. and intro. with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. The Silent Music of the Clouds: 100 Years with Halldór Laxness. Scandinavica Special Issue Vol. 42. No. 1 (May 2003). 204 pp. ISSN 0036-5653.

Articles

“’Girl Interrupting’: History and Art as Clairvoyance in the Fiction of Vigdís Grímsdóttir.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 17 (2007): 1-16.(http://lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca/cocoon/journals/scancan/article.pdf?id=neijmann_1_17)

“’Að skrifa Ísland inn í umheiminn’: þýðingar á Íslandi í menningarkennslu og bókmenntasögu erlendis.” Ritið 7.2-3 (2007): 241-53.

“’New’ Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic Cultural Identity.” Centring on the Peripheries: Studies in Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic Literature. Ed. Bjarne Thomsen. Norwich: Norvik Press, 2007. Pp. 185-99.

"Icelandic Canadian Literature." A History of Icelandic Literature. Ed. Daisy Neijmann. Vol. 5 in Histories of Icelandic Literature. Ed. Sven Rossel. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 608-642.

"In Search of an Icelandic Literature: The History and Practice of Early Icelandic Literary Historiography." Scandinavica 45.1 (May 2006): 43-73.

"Laura Goodman Salverson". The Literary Encyclopedia: Literature in English around the World. Ed. Robert Clark. .

"'Many Masks Merge in an Island Face': Re-imagining an Orcadian Past." In Words in their Places: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie. Eds. Henk Aertsen, Mike Hannay and Rod Lyall. Amsterdam: VU Press, 2004. Pp. 111-122. ISBN 90-9018747-2.

"'Cracking the Boundaries': Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature." In Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Eds. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton and Domenic A. Beneventi. Essay Series 49. Toronto/Lancaster: Guernica, 2004. Pp. 56-77. ISBN 1-55071-167-9.

"Laura 'Lárusdóttir' Salverson: Walking in the Narrative Ways of the Father." In Rediscovering Canadian Difference. Ed. Gudrun Björk Gudsteins. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 17. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press, 2001. Pp. 153-164. ISBN 9979-54-4791.

"'Beyond Icelandic': Teaching in a Heritage Language and Literature Department." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 13 (2000-2001): 62-73. ISSN 0823-1796

"Damned with Faint Praise: The Reception of Laura Goodman Salverson's Works by the Icelandic Canadian Community." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 12 (1999): 40-62. ISSN 0823-1796

"Fighting with Blunt Swords: Laura Goodman Salverson and the Beginnings of a Canadian Literary Canon." Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (Summer 1999): 138-73. ISSN 0313-0301

"Icelandic-Canadian Literature And Anglophone Minority Writing In Canada." World Literature Today, special issue on contemporary literatures in Canada 73.2 (Spring 1999): 245-55. ISSN 060-680

"Laura Goodman Salverson and the Marginalization of Ethnic-Canadian Female Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature." Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Literature & Criticism. Ed. Jørn Carlsen. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series 12. Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus, 1998. Pp. 163-82.

"Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 10 (1997): 53-75.

"In Search of the Canadian Icelander: Writing an Icelandic-Canadian Identity into Canadian Literature." Canadian Ethnic Studies 29.3 (1997): 64-74.

With David G. Delafenetre. "The Netherlandic and Scandinavian Transition in Canada: A Sociological and Literary Perspective." International Journal for Canadian Studies 15 (Spring 1997): 209-30.

"A Failure of Imagination? Icelandic-Canadian Literary Culture in the 'Canadian Mosaic'." In Chicago/Amsterdam, A Man of Two Cities: Essays in Memoriam of August J. Fry. Eds. Henk Aertsen and Richard Todd. Amsterdam: VU Press 1996. Pp. 73-91. ISBN 90-5383-474 5.

"Islenska röddin í kanadískum bókmenntum." Skírnir (Spring 1996): 145-71.

"Laura Goodman Salverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Canadian Authors." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 8 (1995): 19-36.

Translations

with T. Buijs. De Saga van Gisli Surszoon. Elden: Horse-Shoe Publishing, 2005. 216 pp. ISBN 90-80358967 (new system: 9789080358966).

Intro. and transl. with T. Buijs. De Saga van Grettir. Elden: Horseshoe Publishing, 2002. 288 pp. ISBN 90-803589-4-0.

Reviews

Frans J. Schryer. The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity. Canadian Ethnic Studies 31.2 (1999): 154-56.

Joan Clark. Eiríksdóttir. The Icelandic Canadian 53.2 (winter 1994): 108-10.

Magnús Einarsson. Icelandic-Canadian Oral Narratives and Icelandic-Canadian Memory Lore. Canadian Ethnic Studies 27.2 (1995): 215-17.

Other

with Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir et al. Icelandic Online. Reykjavík: The University of Iceland, 27 August 2004. Icelandic Online II, 28 June 2005. .

Papers and Lectures:

“Moderne IJslandse Literatuur” [“Modern Icelandic Literature ”]. Gastcollege [Guest Lecture ], Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 21 May 2007.

“’Að skrifa Ísland inn í umheiminn’: þýðingar á Íslandi í kennslu og bókmenntasögu” [“Writing Iceland”: Translations of Iceland in Literary Historiography and the Classroom” ]. Invited Lecture. Anniversary Session of the Institute of Icelandic Studies, Hugvísindaþing, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 9-10 March 2007.

"Að 'þýða' íslenska menningu: aðdráttarafl, túlkun og viðtökur erlendis" ["Translating" Icelandic culture: attraction, interpretation and reception abroad]. Ráðstefna um kennslu í íslensku sem erlendu/öðru tungumáli / Conference about the teaching of Icelandic as a foreign language, Oddi, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 17-19 August 2006.

"Rewriting Icelandic Literary History". 1st Annual Research Symposium, UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies, London, Tuesday 25 April 2006.

"Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Challenging Concepts of Canadian Identity". Annual Conference of the Centre of Canadian Studies, in collaboration with BACS (British Ass'n of Canadian Studies) and the London Conference for Canadian Studies, Canada House, London, 11-12 February 2005.

"'Girl Interrupting': Art and Clairvoyance in the Fiction of Vigdís Grímsdóttir". Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, in conjunction with the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada Congress, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 29 - 31 May 2003.

"Make-Believe Games, Factual Dreams and Family Ghosts: Magic-Realist Strategies in the Fiction of Some Contemporary Icelandic Women Writers". Gender, Power, Text: Scandinavian Culture in the 20th Century Conference, University College London, 13-14 June 2002.

"Writing an Icelandic Self-Tutor". Annual Meeting of Icelandic Lecturers at Foreign Universities, University of Copenhagen/Amager, 24-25 May 2002.

"'New' Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic Cultural Identity." Centring on the Peripheries Conference, University of Edinburgh, 14-16 March 2002.

"Icelandic-Canadian Studies: Academic Subject and Heritage Icon." Vinland Ahead Conference, Þjóðmenningarhúsið (Culture House), Reykjavik, 31 August-2 September 2000.

"The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Literature." Postgraduate Seminar, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. 9 Dec. 1999.

"Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature." Nordic Literature Group Seminar, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. 4 Dec. 1999.

"'Beyond Icelandic': Refashioning a Heritage Language and Literature Department." Eighteenth Conference of the AASSC in conjunction with the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada Annual Congress, Université de Sherbrooke/Bishop's University. 5-8 June 1999.

"Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Challenges To The Mainstream." Seventeenth Conference of the AASSC (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada) in conjunction with the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada Annual Congress, University of Ottawa. 28-30 May 1998.

"The Icelanders in Manitoba." Lecture. Danish Heritage Seminar, Country Resort Gimli, Man. 20 May 1998.

"'Cracking the Boundaries': Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature." 'The Third Solitude': Canadian Minority Writing Conference, Université de Montréal. 19-21 March 1998.

"The Icelanders in Canada." Lecture. Creative Retirement, Mosaic Lecture Series. Winnipeg, 5 March 1998.

"Laura Goodman Salverson and the Western Icelandic Literary Tradition." The Icelanders in Canada: A Story of Integration, A Symposium on Icelandic-Canadian Studies. Gimli, Man., 24 May 1997.

"Fighting with Blunt Swords: Laura Goodman Salverson and the Beginnings of a Canadian Literary Canon." Public lecture sponsored by the University College Activities Committee, University of Manitoba. 12 February 1997.

"Laura Goodman Salverson and the Marginalization of Ethnic-Canadian Female Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature." The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Tri-Annual Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark. 15-18 August 1996

"In Search of the Canadian Icelander: The Re-Invention of Icelandic Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature." The Icelandic Connection Conference, Red Deer College, Alberta. 20-22 October 1995.

With David G. Delafenetre. "The Netherlandic and Scandinavian Transition in Canada: A Sociological and Literary Perspective." Annual Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, 7-10 June 1995.

"Laura Goodman Salverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Immigrant Writers in Canada." Thirteenth Conference of the AASSC, University of Calgary, June 1994.

"The Dual World of Second-Generation Immigrant Writers in Canada." Icelandic Department Lecture Series, University of Manitoba. 6 October 1994.

"The Icelandic Tradition in Canadian Literature." Letterkundekring, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. 11 February 1993.

Conferences:

With Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. Organization of a Halldór Laxness Seminar in honour of the Centenary of his birth. University College London, 14 Septmeber 2002.

With Kirsten Wolf. Organization of a symposium on Icelandic-Canadian Studies entitled, "The Icelanders in Canada: A Story of Integration," Gimli, Man., 23-25 May 1997.

Participant at the Sixteenth Conference of the AASSC (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada), Memorial University, St. John's, 1-3 June 1997.

Participant at the Fifteenth Conference of the AASSC (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada), Brock University, St. Catharine's, 26-28 June 1996.

Participant at the Fourteenth Conference of the AASSC, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 1995.

Participant at the inaugural ESSE Conference in Norwich, England, September 1991.