Chicago, IL, USA. The literary critic and Chair of Language and Literature at the University of the Basque Country, Jon Kortazar, is the 2019 invited professor of the Koldo Mitxelena Chair at the University of Chicago that provides instruction to postgraduates specialized in Basque studies. As part of the program, Kortazar will teach a seminar entitled “Tensions in the Basque Literary Field,” on Monday, March 4th at 4:30pm at the Franke Institute for Humanities on the university campus, as communicated through a note from the Etxepare Basque Institute.
The Koldo Mitxelena Chair at the University of Chicago is one of the eight chairs that the Etxepare Basque Institute coordinates at universities around the world. The detailed program for the first half of 2019, began on February 21 and will run through March 7th.
The Koldo Mitxelena Chair is located at the heart of the College of Humanities at the University and invites renowned experts to come to campus to teach classes, seminars, and conference on Basque humanistic studies. This year’s edition, under Kortazar’s leadership, will study two authors whose works abound in autobiographical and self-fiction passages: Bernardo Atxaga and Kirmen Uribe. The course aims to show various examples of autobiographies within fiction and analyze how they are inserted in the narrative. Works to be analyzed include Nevada Days (Atxaga) and Bilbao-New York-Bilbao (Uribe).
Besides, the Koldo Mitxelena Chair, the Etxepare Basque Institute also has seven others distributed in universities around the world. All provide specialized postgraduate instruction whose aim is also to spread the Basque culture and language, as well as Basque art in academic areas of excellence. Some of these Chairs have already completed their programs for this year, while others will carry their programs out in the coming weeks, or in the second half of 2019.
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