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Lisa CorcosteguiLisa Corcostegui

Part-Time Faculty

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Education

 

Ph.D., Basque Studies (Anthropology), University of Nevada, Reno

 

M.A., Foreign Language and Literature (Spanish)
Minor: English as a Second Language, UNR
Two Year Teaching Assistantship

 

B.A., Foreign Language and Literature (Spanish)
Minor: Basque Studies, UNR

 

Research interests

  • History and Aesthetics of Basque Dance

  • Dance and Ethnic Identity/Alterity

  • Symbol and Metaphor in Dance

  • Basque Ancestry, Genealogy, Heraldry
  • Social History of Inheritance

  • Gender in Basque Culture

  • Traditional Raiment and Textiles

Courses taught

  • Introduction to Traditional Basque Dance (UNR 2005)

  • Basque Ancestry and Genealogy (BSU 2007, 2008)

  • History and Aesthetics of Basque Dance (BSU 2008)

  • Women in Basque Culture (BSU 2008, 2009)

  • Basque Dance in Sociocultural Context (2010)

Selected Publications

 

“Basque Folklife.” In The Online Nevada Encyclopedia. Nevada Humanities. http://www.onlinenevada.org/basque_folklife June 18, 2007. 

 

To the Beat of a Different Drum: Basque Dance and Identity in the Homeland and the Diaspora. Dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno, 2005.

 

“Four Weddings and Some Funerals: Basque Dance in Contemporary Rites of Passage. “ In Tinta Annex II (2003): Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Graduate Conference on Lusophone and Hispanic Literature and Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara. 

 

“The Making of A Basque Community: From the Boarding House to a Global Village” (main author). In Euskonews Electronic Journal, http://www.euskonews.com/0230zbk/kosmo23002.html November 14-21, 2003.

 

“Inscribing the Other: Orientalism and the Textual Construction of Basques in Anglophone Travel Literature.”  In Journal of the Society of Basque Studies in America, Volume XXI, pp. 35-47. 2001.

 

“Moving Emblems: Basque Dance and Symbolic Ethnic Identity.”  In The Basque Diaspora: La diáspora Vasca, edited by W. A. Douglass, C. Urza, L. White and J. Zulaika, pp. 249-273. The Basque Studies Program Occasional Papers Series. vol. 7, W. A. Douglass, general editor. The Basque Studies Program, Reno. 1999.

 

Conference Papers

 

Courting the Diaspora: The Basque Government in Exile and Dance in Boise (1941). International Basque Studies Conference. Boise State University, Basque Studies Program. April 21, 2007. 

 

Four Weddings and Some Funerals: Basque Dance in Contemporary Rites of Passage. Fifth Annual Graduate Conference on Lusophone and Hispanic Literature and Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara. May 2, 2003.

 

Moving Emblems: Basque Dance and Symbolic Ethnic Identity. International Conference on Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization. Reno, Nevada. July 9, 1998.

 

Translations

 

Urbeltz, Juan Antonio. English Morris Dance: Origin and Metaphor. (forthcoming).

 

Letamendía, Francisco. "Basque Nationalism and the Struggle for Self-Determination in the Basque Country." In Berch Berberoglu (Ed.), The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self Determination in the Twentieth Century. pp. 180-198. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1995.

 

Aulestia, Gorka. Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993.

 

Current Projects

 

Collaboration with Koldo San Sebastian on volume of Basque immigration to Idaho

 

Director of Ontario, Oregon Basque Club's Sustraiak Project for Basque Family History

 

 


 

 

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