Forschung

Silvia Veronika Hufnagel

PhD

Gastforscherin

silvia.hufnagel(at)oeaw.ac.at
(Tel. +43-1/51581-7264)

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 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

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.