Teaching staff

DAVID RIO RAIGADAS

DAVID RIO is Professor of American Literature at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Vitoria-Gasteiz. His research interests are located within the field of American Studies, with an emphasis on diaspora studies, regional literatures, and especially western American writing and Basque-American literature. He is the author of El proceso de la violencia en la narrativa de Robert Penn Warren (1995), Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature (2007) and New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction (2014). He has also co-edited five volumes on the literature of the American West. David Rio coordinates an international research group (REWEST) specializing in the literature and culture of the American West.