Anna Björk Einarsdóttir
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Bygg 3, 3412, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
About
About
I am an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. I have a Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis (2018) and have managed research projects funded by The Icelandic Research Fund (IRF) and the University of Iceland.
Research interests
- Comparative Literature; World Literature; Red World Literature
- Latin American, American, and Nordic Literature with an emphasis on the interwar period (1918-1939)
- Critical Theory; Marxism; the Frankfurt School; Uneven and Combined Development; Internationalism
- Theory of the Novel; Realism; Peripheral Realism
Publications
My current book project is a comparative study of interwar proletarian literature. The project examines the appearances of the proletarian novel in cultural contexts that were—during the interwar period—peripheral to the cultural center of the emerging socialist second world in Moscow and the core locations of Westernized hegemony in Paris, London, and New York. Working across national and regional contexts in Latin America, the Nordic Countries, and the USA, the study focuses on the emergence of a new proletarianized class that galvanized the making of local proletarian literature.
I am currently working on two editorial projects on Red World Literature. My papers have appeared in Science and Society, A Contracorriente, and edited anthologies such as Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives and Arbejderlitteratur Internationale perspektiver og forbindelser.
Teaching
In the past, I have taught various courses on the history of Western World Literature from the ancient period onwards, as well as thematic courses on 20th-century realism, the social novel, literature and revolution, and committed literature. My areas of specialization include Literature of the Americas, 20th-century American and Latin American literature, Proletarian Literature, Realism, Critical Theory with an emphasis on Marxism, and World Literature.
Publications
2025
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2025)
The Proletarian Moment in World Literature.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Academic article
2024
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2024)
Öreigaskáldsagan og heimsbókmenntir útnáranna.
Ritið
Academic article
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Steinþórsdóttir, Guðrún;
Hjartarson, Benedikt;
Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2024)
Rauðar heimsbókmenntir: Inngangur.
Ritið
Academic article
2023
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2023)
Proletariat of the Earth: Comintern Aesthetics on the Edges of the World.
Academic chapter
2021
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2021)
“El bacilo de Carlos Marx”: Or, Roberto Arlt, the Leninist.
A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos
Academic article
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2021)
Comintern Aesthetics in the Andes: The Indigenous Revolutionary.
Science & society (New York. 1936)
Academic article
2020
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Einarsdóttir, Anna Björk.
(2020)
Tales of Social Terror: Notes on Argentine Working-Class Literature.
Academic chapter
2014
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2014)
Poetics of Commodities, Crisis, and Capital. A Review of Ericka Beckman’s Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age.
A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos
Book review
2006
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2006)
Fortíðarþrá í Argóarflís Sjóns.
Skírnir
Book review
Journal publications
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2025)
The Proletarian Moment in World Literature.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Academic article
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2006)
Fortíðarþrá í Argóarflís Sjóns.
Skírnir
Book review
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2014)
Poetics of Commodities, Crisis, and Capital. A Review of Ericka Beckman’s Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age.
A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos
Book review
-
Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2024)
Öreigaskáldsagan og heimsbókmenntir útnáranna.
Ritið
Academic article
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Steinþórsdóttir, Guðrún;
Hjartarson, Benedikt;
Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2024)
Rauðar heimsbókmenntir: Inngangur.
Ritið
Academic article
-
Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2021)
“El bacilo de Carlos Marx”: Or, Roberto Arlt, the Leninist.
A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos
Academic article
-
Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2021)
Comintern Aesthetics in the Andes: The Indigenous Revolutionary.
Science & society (New York. 1936)
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Einarsdóttir, Anna Björk.
(2020)
Tales of Social Terror: Notes on Argentine Working-Class Literature.
Academic chapter
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Einarsdottir, Anna Björk.
(2023)
Proletariat of the Earth: Comintern Aesthetics on the Edges of the World.
Academic chapter
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2026
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2026) Alejo Carpentier’s Novels of Revolution. Literary Politics and Geopolitics
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2026) Revolutionary Allegory. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2026) Internationalism and Literary Form: Proletarian Literature as World Literature. MLG Institute on Culture and Society
2025
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2025) Alejo Carpentier’s Historical Novels. Beyond the Event: Rethinking Revolution
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2025) Literature and Class Consciousness: The Proletarian Moment in World Literature. World Literature as World Crisis
2024
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2024) Realism after Lenin. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
2023
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2023) Periodizing the Periphery. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
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Conference lecture
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LectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2023) Red World Literature: The Peripheral Proletarian Novel. Lecture Series
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LectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2023) Exiting the Proletarian Left: Radical Transitions during the 1950s. Global Politics Studies: Lecture Series
2022
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2022) Internationalist World Literature: The Peripheral Proletarian Novel. Socialist World Cultures
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2022) Exit Stage Left: Radical Transitions and Cold War Modernism/Realism. MLG Institute on Culture and Society
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2022) The Proletarian Epic: World Light and Yawar Fiesta. Nordisk Arbejderlitteratur VIII conference: Arbetarlitteratur bortom kanon
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LectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2022) Eccentric Comparatisms: Internationalist Aesthetics on the Peripheries. Guest Lecture
2021
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2021) Peripheral Proletarianism and the World-System. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2021) Peripheral Proletarianism and the World-System: An Excerpt from a Chapter. MLG Institute on Culture and Society
2020
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2020) Black and Indigenous Revolutionary Radicalism of the Interwar Period. The Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2020) Proletarians of the Earth: Comintern Aesthetics on the Edges of the World. Nordisk Arbejderlitteratur VII conference: Internationale perspektiver og forbindelser
2019
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2019) Peripheral Proletarianism: Richard Wright, Roberto Arlt, Halldór Laxness. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
2018
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2018) The Proletarian Absence: From the New to the Old Argentine Left. 1968 in Global Perspectives, 20th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2018) Literature and Class Consciousness. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
2017
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2017) The Argentine Social Novel Reconsidered: The Case of Elías Castelnuovo. 13th Annual Colloquium in Latin American and Peninsular Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2017) Indigenous Proletarians: On Andean Proletarian Literature. Historical Materialism
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2017) Indigenous Revolutionaries and the Old Left. MLG Institute on Culture and Society
2016
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LectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2016) Ex-hombres: On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature. Socialism / Postsocialism Research Cluster
2015
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2015) Proletarian Aesthetics in the Americas. Graduate Student Lecture Series, Comparative Literature
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LectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2015) Fagurfræði öreigans: Öreigabókmenntir Norður- og Suður Ameríku. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages
2014
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Other presentationEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2014) Proletarian Literature in Argentina. 2014 HIA Summer Research Award Symposium
2013
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2013) From the Subject of Truth to the Proletariat. MLG Institute on Culture and Society
2012
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2012) The Indigenous Proletariat: Notes on Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza. 8th Annual Colloquium in Latin American and Peninsular Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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Conference lectureEinarsdottir, Anna Björk. (2012) Willing the Event: On Prescriptive Politics. MLG Institute on Culture and Society