AEDEAN Board:

Dr. David Río

Professor of American Literature / Catedrático de Literatura Norteamericana,
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz

Academic Degrees:

• First Degree in English Philology, University of the Basque Country
• Doctor in English Philology, University of the Basque Country

Recent Publications::

• Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature. Tr. Kristin Addis. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 2007.
• “Challenging Conventional Recreations of the Western Past: Frank Bergon’s Shoshone Mike”, The International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, No. 1&2, 2007: 69-78.
• Prólogo de The Basque Hotel: Nacido en América (Robert Laxalt). Donostia-San Sebastián: Ttarttalo, 2007: 5-14.
• Traducción de The Basque Hotel: Nacido en América (Robert Laxalt). Donostia-San Sebastián: Ttarttalo, 2007.
• Exploring the American Literary West: International Perspectives. Co-edited with Amaia Ibarraran, J.M. Santamaría & Mª Felisa López. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco, 2006.
• “Nevada’s Non-Anglo European Immigrants and Their Literary Interpreters in Contemporary American Fiction”, Anglophonia/Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, Vol. 19, 2006: 45-54.
• American Mirrors: (Self) Reflections and (Self) Distortions. Co-edited with Mª Felisa López, Amaia Ibarraran & Federico Eguíluz. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco, 2005.
• “Susan Sontag: la erótica de la palabra y de la imagen”, Turia: Revista Cultural, Vol. 76, 2005: 9-21.
• “Place and Identity in the Postmodern West: Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays”. In Estudios de Literatura en Lengua Inglesa de los Siglos XX y XXI (8). Eds. José M. Barrio & Pilar Abad. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2005: 251-257.
•  “Basque American Literature”. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Vol. I). Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005: 246-251.

Subjects:

• Contemporary American Literature
• Regional Literatures in America
• Multiethnic Fiction

Areas of Research::

• Western American Literature
• Southern Literature
• Multicultural Fiction
• Basque American Literature
• Environmental Literature

Contact Address::

Dpto. Filología Inglesa, Facultad de Letras, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
Pº Universidad, 5
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Tel.: +34 945 013975
Fax: +34 945 013200
e-mail: david.rio@ehu.es

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