
is an expert on the Icelandic sagas, mainly family sagas (Íslendingasögur) and legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur).

focuses in her research on cross-cultural and comparative studies of medieval literature, emotion theory, particularly literary emotionality, literary history, translation studies, voice and gender.

His current research focuses on medieval contingency and anxiety, with special interest in the handling of darkness in and through medieval literature, as well as the interaction of medieval studies and society in the 21st century.