Language and Literature professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since 2008.
After a degree in Advertising and Public Relations (UPV/EHU), she pursued studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Communication in Paris (La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) and Madrid (Complutense University).
Her research focuses on themes such as literature, minorities, narratives, symbols, and conflicts. In terms of perspective, most of her recent work is situated within the fields of autobiographical anthropology, the sociology of literature, and feminist criticism.
Among her research contributions, the following are particularly notable: *Itsasoa da bide bakarra. Joseba Sarrionandia irakurriz* (Utriusque Vasconiae, 2014) and *Idazleen gorputzak: egiletasuna ezbaian literaturaren joko-zelaian* (Susa, 2019). The former is an analysis of the maritime imagery in Joseba Sarrionandia’s body of work, approached through a literary, sociological, and anthropological lens; the latter is a collection of interviews with female writers from different generations, using the ethnography of the body as a starting point. Furthermore, mention should be made of the unpublished research work “Una mirada en torno a las creencias y a la identidad docente de una intermediaria de la literatura” (which will soon be published as part of a collective volume by Peter Lang). This study employs a life-narrative methodology to analyze the potential impact that this educator’s beliefs and preconceptions may have on her students.
My primary areas of work with students are: the promotion of reading—of literature in general, and of children’s and young adult literature (CYAL) in particular, —as well as language pedagogy in multilingual contexts.
In addition to being a researcher, she is also a writer. Her body of work includes, among other things, five collections of short stories and a novel. She has received several significant awards, including the Euskadi Literature Prize (2018), the 111 Academy Prize (2021), the Premi Llibreter (2024) and the Premio Nacional de la Crítica (2026).