Teaching staff

AMAIA ELIZALDE ESTENAGA

Knowledge area

Teaching of Language and Literature

Department

Lenguage and Literature Didactics

Centre

Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology

Electronic mail

amaia.elizalde@ehu.eus

Amaia Elizalde Estenaga teaches at the Faculty of Education and Sports of the University of the Basque Country. She is part of the research group Historical Memory in the Iberian Literatures, funded by the Basque Government, and she participates at the different projects developped by the group. Her main lines of research are in the area of literature and arts, comparative literature, censorship studies and memory studies.



She obtained her degrees in Spanish Philology (2011) and Basque Philology (2012) at the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV). She undertook part of her studies abroad at the UNAM (Mexico DF) and UPPA (Pau) and she holds a MA in Research on Basque Studies from the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (UBM) (2013) and a MA in Comparative Literature and Culture Criticisim (2016). She obtained her PhD at the universities EHU/UPV and UBM with a thesis that focused on the Basque cultural and literary revitalization and renewal that took place during the 50's and 60's, particulary on the literary modernity and reception of the novel Haur besoetakoa [The goddaughter](1959-1970) written by the Basque parisian-born writer Jon Mirande.