Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir is a Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Iceland. Concentrating on 19th and 20th century history, she has published works on women’s and gender history, biography, correspondence, and historiography. Among her works in English are articles in Life Writing, Women’s History Review, The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography, and she co-edited Biography, Gender, and History: Nordic Perspectives.

Erla Hulda has published various articles and chapters in Icelandic and authored four books. In 2011 she published Nútímans konur (Women of Modernity) in which she studies women’s education and the construction of gender in late 19th century Iceland. In 2020 she co-authored the award-winning book Konur sem kjósa. Aldarsaga (A Centenary of Women Voters) in which the authors study women’s citizenship and agency in 20th-century Iceland. In 2023 she published Ég er þinn elskari (I Am Your Lover. Baldvin Einarsson’s Letters to Kristrún Jónsdóttir, 1825–1832), which contains edited letters along with extensive introductionary chapter.

In 2024 she published a scholarly biography of a 19th century Icelandic woman, Strá fyrir straumi (Flowing With The Water. The Life of Sigríður Pálsdóttir, 1809–1871).