About Birna Bjarnadottir BIRNA BJARNADOTTIR is acting head and chair and Graduate head and chair in the Department of Icelandic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Books by Birna Bjarnadottir Recesses of the Mind Aesthetics in the Work of Guðbergur Bergsson by (author) Birna Bjarnadottir My Parents Memoirs of New World Icelanders edited by Birna Bjarnadottir & Finnbogi Gudmundsson