Gunnar Theodór Eggertsson
Author & animal studies academic
LITERAL ANIMALS
An exploration of animal worlds through language, culture and narrative.
[Ph.D. dissertation, 2016]
THE WORK
Three essays on animals and culture (in Icelandic).
2016/1:
Animal Realism and Natural Science Fiction
2016/2:
Bestial Pleasures
2020/1:
Visible and Invisible Animals in Icelandic Animal Fiction
THE LIVES OF ANIMALS
Icelandic introduction to J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals.
Published by The Icelandic Literary Society in 2020.
HUMAN VICTIM
IS ANIMAL
"Multimodal expressions of the HUMAN VICTIM IS ANIMAL metaphor in horror films"
An academic CHAPTprepared from the master's thesis in collaboration with dr. Charles J. Forceville
Appeared in Multimodal Metaphor (2009), editors C.J. Forceville and E. Urios-Aparisi.
ANIMAL HORROR
An investigation into animal rights, horror cinema and the double standards
of violent human behaviour.
[M.A. thesis, 2006]
THE MARGIN
A reflection on humans and animals.
2012/3
Do Humans Dream About Living Animals?
THE SILENCING OF ANIMALS
Article about "The Brown Dog Affair", animal protection and animal rights. Published in the July issue of Róstir 2010.
SILHOUETTES IN A BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD
Criminalism, romance and the femme fatale
in Frank Miller's Sin City
[B.A. Thesis, 2005]