Beñat Doxandabaratz Otaegi

Beñat Doxandabaratz Otaegi

Presentation

Beñat Doxandabaratz Otaegi has been an Assistant Professor (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since the 2025–26 academic year. Between 2021 and 2025, he served as a temporary professor and assistant professor in the Department of Basque Language and Communication at UPV/EHU. He was previously a substitute lecturer in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at UPV/EHU (2014–15), as well as a lecturer on the Communication degree and the Education Sciences degree at Mondragon University (2009–2012).

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Media Studies from the University of Stirling (United Kingdom, 1988–1992, a degree officially recognised by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture as equivalent to a Licenciatura in Information Sciences, Audiovisual specialisation. He holds a PhD in Social Communication from UPV/EHU (Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising). His doctoral dissertation, Landa- eta hiri-identitateak talkan euskal zinema berrian (Rural and Urban Identities in Collision in New Basque Cinema), was supervised by Katixa Agirre.

He also holds an Official Master’s Degree in Education in Multicultural and Plurilingual Contexts (EKOMU) from Mondragon University (60 ECTS, research proficiency) and a Master’s Degree in Screenwriting, Audiovisual Production and Direction (UPV/EHU).

His teaching activity includes courses in journalism, communication, and professional uses of Basque, taught in Basque, Spanish, and English at both UPV/EHU and Mondragon University.

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1402-6247

As a professional, he has worked for two decades as a journalist in both the written press and television (Argia, Euskonews, Zabalik, Deia, ETB), as well as serving as a communications officer in several public institutions, including the Department of Culture of the Basque Government, the Department of Social Policy of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, and the Etxepare Basque Institute. He also served as Press Officer for Donostia / San Sebastián European Capital of Culture 2016.

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Research lines

His main research line focuses on the relationship between cinema and society, with particular attention to European cinema in minority languages and, more specifically, to new Basque-language cinema since 2005. His research addresses issues of identity, memory, social representation, conflict, rural–urban tensions, and intersectional and queer approaches to film analysis.

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Most relevant publications (in the last 5 years)

He has published articles in internationally indexed, peer-reviewed journals:

Book chapter:

  • Doxandabaratz Otaegi, B. (2024). Towards SDG 18 (17+1): A teaching experience in Law and Criminology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) to promote linguistic diversity and the right to understand. In I. Ordeñana Gezuraga, I. Suberbiola Garbizu, S. Arruti Benito, & H. Colomo Iraola (Eds.), Los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible y la innovación educativa en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del derecho. Madrid: Dykinson.
    DOI: 10.14679/3319
    Book chapter in the edited volume The Sustainable Development Goals and Educational Innovation in the Teaching–Learning of Law, derived from a paper presented at a scientific conference, published by Dykinson is ranked 3rd legal publisher in the SPI ranking, ISBN 978-84-1070-862-4.
  • In the book Euskal Zinemak 20 urte (2005–2025), edited by Josu Martínez and Samara Velte, Beñat Doxandabaratz Otaegi has written the chapter “Euskal gizartearen sotoan barrena: bidaia intersekzionala Ander, 80 Egunean, Jone, batzuetan and Faisaien Irla-ra”. The book will be published in 2026 as part of the Mikel Laboa Chair collection of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
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Academic conferences

He presented the paper “Towards SDG 18 (17+1): A teaching experience in Law and Criminology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) to promote linguistic diversity and the right to understand” at the conference The SDGs and Educational Innovation in Law Teaching (UPV/EHU, 2024), where he also served as a member of the organizing and scientific committee.

Additionally, in 2014, together with Katixa Agirre, he presented the paper “Axun and Maite on the Island: Rural and Urban Identities in Confrontation in Basque Cinema” at the 5th National ULEPICC Conference, Local and Community Public Broadcasting: Threatened Proximity Communication.

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Research projects

He has participated in research projects and academic initiatives related to educational innovation, linguistic diversity, and critical film and media analysis, particularly in connection with SDG 18 (17+1) on linguistic diversity and the right to understand in higher education.

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