Þorbjörg Daphne Hall has become a professor of musicology

Þorbjörg Daphne Hall recently advanced to the position of professor of music studies at the music department.

Þorbjörg Daphne Hall, has worked at the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts since 2010. She completed a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool where she discussed the tension between the different stories about „the Icelandic“ in popular music in modern Iceland. Þorbjörg is currently working on a book about the Icelandic music scene that will be published by Bloomsbury. She is also working on a research project on Icelandic jazz music (1930-2010) together with Ásbjörga Jónsdóttir and a study of social influences in creative music workshops together with Sigrúna Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths. She edited the book Sounds Icelandic which was published by Equinox Publishing in 2017 together with Nicola Dibben, Árna Heimi Ingólfsson and Tony Michell. Þorbjörg has published articles and lectured at international conferences on Icelandic music, music and national identity, the film Home by Sigur Rós and about music in Kristjania in Copenhagen. She has been one of the editors Thread, the magazine of the LHÍ music department from 2016.

We sincerely congratulate Þorbjörg.