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Mari Jose OlaziregiDr. Mari Jose Olaziregi

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Education

 

1997    Ph.D., Basque Literature, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). Dissertation: Analysis of the Implied Reader of Bernardo Atxaga’s  works [in Basque].

 

Research Interests

 

Research interests include Basque literature, twentieth-century comparative literature, literary and cultural theory, post-modernism, narrative, the novel, gender studies, Basque cultural studies.

 

Selected Publications

 

Books:

Euskal gazteen irakurzaletasuna. Azterketa soziologikoa [The Reading Habits of Basque Youth]. Bergara: Ayto. Bergara (Beca Justo Gárate Arriola), 1998.

 

Intimismoaz haraindi. Emakumezkoek idatzitako euskal literatura [Basque Literature Written by Women]. Donostia: Sociedad de Estudios Vascos (Beca Ángel Apraiz).

 

Ramon Saizarbitoriaren unibertso literarioa [The Literary Universe of Ramon Saizarbitoria]. Bilbao: Labayru, 1999.

Euskal eleberriaren historia [History of the Basque Novel]. Bilbao: Labayru-Ayto. de Amorebieta Etxano (Beca Santiago Onaindia), 2001.

 

Waking the Hedgehog. The Literary Universe of Bernardo Atxaga. Reno: Center for Basque Studies-University of Nevada, 2005.

 

Book chapters:

 

“Un siglo de novela en euskera,” in Urquizu, P., Historia de la literatura vasca. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2000. Pp. 504–588.

 

“La narrativa contemporánea: lecturas y diálogos intertextuales”, in Martínez-Vasseur, P. (ed.), La question nationale en Espagne, CRINI-Université de Nantes, 55-63, 2002.

 

“Etzikoak  (epilogoa),” in AA.VV., Etzikoak. Antologija sodobne baskovske knizevnosti, Drustvo slovenskih pisateljev. Ljubljana:  Pp. 223–238.

 

“Basque Fiction” in Altisent, Marta (ed.), A Companion to the 20th-Century Spanish Novel. (Tamesis Series) London: Boydrell & Brewer Ltd,  2008.

 

Anthologies and edited books:

 

Zavala, I. M., Olaziregi, M. J., et al., Breve historia feminista de la literatura española (en lengua catalana, gallega y vasca). Barcelona: Anthropos, 2000.

 

Olaziregi, M. J. (ed., compiler), An Anthology of Basque Short Stories. Reno: Center for Basque Studies-University of Nevada, 2004. (Ibid. in Basque by Erein, 2005: in Spanish, by Lengua de Trapo, 2005 & Circulo de lectores, 2008; in Russian, by St. Petersburg. University Press, 2005; in italian, by Granvia Edizioni, 2005; in English, by Parthian, 2008).

 

Olaziregi, M. J. (ed.) Six Basque Poets. Todmorden (UK): Arc Publications, 2007.




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