Amaya Ibarraran Vigalondo
- Knowledge area
- English Philology
- Department
- English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies
- Centre
- Faculty of Arts
- Electronic mail
- amaia.ibarraran@ehu.eus
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches contemporary North American Literature and Culture, with a special focus in “minority” literatures of the United States. Her research has been focused on the study of Chicano/a Literature and Culture and has published several articles in international journals, such as such as Atlantis; Journal of Popular Music Studies; Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, International Journal of English Studies (IJES); Iperstoria: Testi, Letteratura, Linguaggi; Journal of Contemporary Drama in English; The Atlantic Literary Review, Clepysdra, Journal of English Studies, or Western American Literature, among others. She has been the coeditor of The Neglected West (2012) and Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders (2015), and others. She has recently published a book entitled Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas in Routledge (2019).
Dr. Ibarraran-Bigalondo has participated in various research projects since her
beginning as a researcher. She is a very active member of Basque Government-fudned REWEST (Research Group in Western American Literature and Culture), focused on the study of literature and culture of the new North American West. She has been the second leading researcher of the project The new American West: literature, film and artistic transfers in a cross-border and multicultu