Teaching staff
ASIER BARANDIARAN AMARICA
- Knowledge area
- Teaching of Language and Literature
- Department
- Lenguage and Literature Didactics
- Centre
- Faculty of Education and Sport
- Electronic mail
- asier.barandiaran@ehu.eus
Asier Barandiaran Amarika (Galdakao, 1970) graduated from the University of Deusto with the title of Basque Philologist (1993) and after being a high school teacher for two years he was professor since 1995 at the University of Navarra. Since 2002 he was secretary of the Diploma of Basque Studies of that university and in 2006 he was appointed coordinator of the Chair of Basque Language and Culture. In 2002 he obtained the title of Doctor in Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country after defending the doctoral thesis directed by Professor Jon Kortazar Uriarte. In 2009 he began collaborating as an external member in the LAIDA Research Group (since 2011 as a member of the UPV). In 2011 he began to be a professor at the University of the Basque Country in the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature. He has completed several investigations and publications about the rhetoric of Basque orality. He has also analyzed different aspects of journalism in Basque and Basque literature in particular from literary criticism point of view. Lately he has paid special attention to the Basque literature of Navarre authors.