Teaching staff

MARIA JOSE OLACIREGUI ALUSTIZA

Knowledge area

Basque Philology

Department

Linguistics and Basque Studies

Centre

Faculty of Arts

Electronic mail

mj.olaziregi@ehu.eus

Mari Jose Olaziregi holds a PhD in Basque literature. She is a Full Professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), and between 2007-2009 Assistant Professor at the Center for Basque Studies (University of Nevada, Reno), and Visiting Professor at universities like the University of Konstanz (2009-10), the University of Chicago (2015-16) or the City University of New York (2014-2015 , 2016-2017, 2020-2021) She holds a MA in Studies in Fiction at the University of East Anglia (UK). She specializes in contemporary Basque and Iberian literature, Comparative Literature, Basque Cultural and Gender Studies, and Memory Studies. She is the author of 11 books on Basque literature, 92 book-chapters, 18 edited books, and 81 articles in international journals. Mari Jose Olaziregi is a correspondent member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, and between 2010-2016, the Director of the Language and Universities Area at Etxepare Basque Institute. Lastly, she is a member of different international research-groups or networks, such as, the Groups “Celt”, “Liter21” and “Lijmi” (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 2006-), or the Research Network “Memory and Narration” (University of Aarhus). Since 2012, she coordinates the “Historical Memory and Iberian Literatures Consolidated Research Group (MHLI) and all its research projects. She has supervised 12 dissertations.