Bernardo Atxaga Chair: Larraitz Ariznabarreta

This year´s guest researcher at the Bernardo Atxaga Chair, promoted by the Etxepare Basque Institute at City University of New York, is Larraitz Ariznabarreta, PhD in multiculturalism and specialist in Basque studies.

As part of the chair programme Ariznabarreta will teach a course from 15 to 19 September entitled ‘The Basque poetry generation of the 1960s: literature, militancy and utopia’, and will analyse the emergence and evolution of politically engaged poetry in the Basque Country in the 1960s. On 19 September she will also give a lecture-seminar entitled ‘Between history and branding: cultural and political transformations in the Basque Country in the 1970s’.

Larraitz Ariznabarreta

Larraitz Ariznabarreta is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Deusto. Previously, she taught and conducted research at Boise State University and the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research centres on Basque cultural studies, and from this perspective, she has examined historical and contemporary Basque artifacts within their aesthetic, political, and social contexts.

Ariznabarreta’s principal areas of research focus on exploring the different expressions of Basque culture and how it continually interacts with power structures. Ariznabarreta has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on Basque literature and culture, both contemporary and historical, in international academic journals and specialised publishers. She is also the author of the following books, among others: Martin Ugalde: Cartografías de un discurso (Ekin, 2015); Espacios de la heterodoxia del exilio (Hamaikabide, 2017); Notes on Basque Culture: The Aftermath of Epics (CLAEH, 2019); Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories. Constructing Meaning from Memory (en colaboración con Nere Lete, CBS Press, 2022); Bertso Eskolak: The Schools of Improvisational Verse Singing (in collaboration with Iñaki Arrieta Baro and Xabier Irujo, CBS Press, 2022); and Historiography, Myth, Literature (CBS Press, 2023).