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The University of Winnipeg

Andrew McGillivray

Andrew McGillivray Title: Department Chair, Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9001
Office: 3G13
Building: Graham Hall
Email: a.mcgillivray@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

PhD University of Iceland 2015, Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies

MA University of Manitoba 2011, Icelandic Language and Literature

BA University of Manitoba 2006, English Literature and History

TESL Teaching Certificate, University of Winnipeg 2016, English Language Program

Biography:

Dr. Andrew McGillivray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. Before joining the University of Winnipeg, he taught in the Icelandic Language and Literature program at the University of Manitoba as well as in the Medieval Icelandic Studies (MIS) and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies (VMN) programs at the University of Iceland.

Teaching Areas:

  • Professional Style & Editing
  • Rhetorical Criticism
  • Revolutions in Communication
  • Forms of Inquiry in Written Communication
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Writing Internship
  • Modern Rhetorical Theory
  • Rhetorics of Identity

Publications:

Recent Essays

McGillivray, Andrew. 2024. “Weapon of Assault: Combat, Protective Magic, and the Fatal Throat Bite in Icelandic Sagas.” European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 54.1: 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2024-2006

---. 2023. “Siðferði í Hávarðar sögu Ísfirðings.” In Menning við ysta haf: Lesið í sköpunarkraft Vestfjarða og Stranda. Edited by Birna Bjarnadóttir and Ingi Björn Guðnason. Reykjavík: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag. 237–250. https://hib.is/vara/menning-vid-ysta-haf-lesid-i-skopunarkraft-vestfjarda/

Recent reviews:

McGillivray, Andrew. 2024. Review of Katherine Marie Olley, Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend (Woodbridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2022). Speculum 99.3: 931–933. https://doi.org/10.1086/730840

---. 2023. Review of Nicolas Meylan, The Pagan Earl: Hákon Sigurðarson and the Medieval Construction of Old Norse Religion (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2022). Saga-Book XLVII: 158–161. 

---. 2023. Review of Lee Colwill and Haukur Þorgeirsson, eds. and trans., The Bearded Bride: A Critical Edition of Þrymlur (Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2020). Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 30: http://doi.org/10.29173/scancan220