Akademischer Werdegang

2008–2012
PhD in Literatursoziologie, Universität Kopenhagen (Dänemark), mit Aufenthalten an der Stofnun Árna Magnússonar in Reykjavík (Island) und der Universität Uppsala (Schweden)
Thema "Sörla saga sterka: Studies in the Transmission of a Fornaldarsaga"

1997–2003
Studium der Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte, Universität Salzburg, mit Aufenthalten an der Universität Islands, Reykjavík (Island), und der Universität Oulu, Oulu (Finnland)

Beruflicher Werdegang

Seit 2024
Mitarbeit an manuscripta.at

Seit 2018
Post-Doc am Projekt „Paper Trails: A Material History of 16th and 17th Century Icelandic Books from Paper Production to Library Collection”, Leiterin Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík (Rannís, Island).
https://papertrailsiceland.wixsite.com/papertrails

https://twitter.com/PaperTrailsIS

in Kooperation mit ABC-Project, Abt. Schrift- & Buchwesen

2015–2017
Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Stipendiatin am Projekt „Old and New: How Old and New Media Influenced Each Other and Society in Iceland during the 16th and 17th Centuries” (Projekt-Nr. 658813), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien

2012–2015
Post-Doc am Projekt "Stories for All Time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur", Leiter Matthew Driscoll, Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling, Universität Kopenhagen (Velux-Fond, Dänemark)

2012
Post-Doc am Projekt "The People's Press: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print", Leiter Matthew Driscoll und Davíð Ólafsson, Isländische Akademie, Reykjavík (Rannís, Island)

2012
Post-Doc MRSH, Universität Caen (Frankreich)

2006–2008
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling, Universität Kopenhagen (Dänemark)

2003–2006
DaF-Lektorin der Österreich Kooperation, Universität York (Großbritannien)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Altisländische Literatur, isländische Handschriftenkunde, Buchgeschichte, Literatursoziologie

Publikationen (Auswahl)

• Silvia Hufnagel / Þórunn Sigurðardóttir / Davíð Ólafsson (Eds.), Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Post-Medieval Europe. Material Text Cultures. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming).
   
• The Rise of Paper: An Overview of Paper Provenance in 15th- and 16th-Century Iceland, in: Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Post-Medieval Europe, edited by Silvia Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir and Davíð Ólafsson, Material Text Cultures. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming).
   
• Title Pages in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Manuscripts: The Development and Functions of Print Features in Manuscript Form. Manuscript Studies 6/2 (2021) 300-337.
   
• The Paper Trails of Bishop Guðbrandur Þorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland, in: The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks, edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2021, 302-324.
   
• Der Wechsel von Pergament und Wachstafeln zu Papier in Island im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 95 (2020) 176-191.
   
• Matthew Driscoll, Silvia Hufnagel, Beeke Stegmann and Philip Lavender (Eds.), The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and Reception of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda. The Viking Collection 24. Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2018.
   
• ‘Helga á þessa lögbók:’ A Dry Point Ownership Statement in Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Boreal. 91. Gripla 29 (2018) 293-308.
   
• Iceland’s Lack of Printer’s Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century, in: Typographorum emblemata: The Printer’s Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture, edited by Anja Wolkenhauer and Bernhard F. Scholz (Written Media 4). Berlin: de Gruyter 2017, 255-264.
   
• The Library of the Genius: The Manuscript Collection of Rasmus Christian Rask, in: Autour des sagas: Manuscrits, transmission et écriture de l’histoire (Tabularia Études 16). University of Caen 2016, 305-327.
   
• Matthías saga digitalis 6.0: Festschrift for Matthew James Driscoll on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday 15th May 2014, hg. v. Silvia Hufnagel et all.
   
• The Farmer, Scribe and Lay Historian Gunnlaugur Jónsson from Skuggabjörg and his Scribal Network. Gripla 24 (2013) 234–268.
   
• Icelandic Society and Subscribers to Rafn’s Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. Scripta Islandica 63 (2012) 5–27.
   
• Sörla saga sterka: Studies in the Transmission of a Fornaldarsaga. Dissertation Universität Kopenhagen, 2012.