A specialist in children's and young adult literature who takes a transnational approach to examining gender representation and ideological discourses in European female-authored texts from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Key areas
Children's literature · Gender representation · Transnational studies
Iraide Talavera Burgos holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Deusto and earned her PhD in 2021 within the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her doctoral thesis, titled "Las niñas tienen la palabra. El valor reivindicativo de la literatura infantil y juvenil alemana, inglesa, española y vasca de autoría femenina desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta los inicios del siglo XXI" ["Girls Speak Up: The Empowering Value of Female-Authored Children's and Young Adult Literature in German, English, Spanish, and Basque from the Early 20th to the Early 21st Century, "] was supervised by Dr. Mario Saalbach Erdmann.
Since September 2018, she has been teaching English language and literature in the area of English Studies (Department of German and English Philology and Translation and Interpreting) at the Faculty of Arts of the EHU. Her teaching spans several degree programs, including English Studies, Basque Studies, Philology, and Translation and Interpreting. She has also taught specialized English courses within the Bachelor's Degree in Renewable Energy at the School of Engineering of Gipuzkoa, as well as in the Bachelor's Degree in Nautical Science and Maritime Transport at the Nautical School of Portugalete. Over the years, she has successfully supervised more than fifteen undergraduate theses on 20th- and 21st-century British and American children's and young adult literature.
From 2018 to 2022, she was a member of the research project "Memorias históricas contestadas: censura, transmisión e institucionalización en la cultura ibérica y europea (1975-2015)" ["Contested Historical Memories: Censorship, Transmission, and Institutionalization in Iberian and European Culture (1975–2015) "] (FFI2017-84342-P). Since 2022, she has been part of the research group "IdeoLit: La literatura como documento histórico" ["IdeoLit: Literature as a Historical Document"] (GIU21/003).
In addition to teaching in English, she has excellent command of German, Basque, and Spanish (her mother tongue), and an intermediate level of French.
Chapter / 2022
In Eine schöne neue Welt? Heimat im Spannungsfeld von Gedächtnis und Dystopie in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Aussiger Beiträge – Supplement (16. Jahrgang). Carme Bescansa, Renata Cornejo, Garbiñe Iztueta-Goizueta, Iraide Talavera-Burgos, Mario Saalbach (eds.), 2022, pp. 107–115.
Chapter / 2021
In Heimat und Gedächtnis heute. Literarische Repräsentationen von Heimat in der aktuellen deutschsprachigen Literatur, edited by Garbiñe Iztueta, Carme Bescansa, Iraide Talavera, Mario Saalbach. Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 111–117.
Chapter / 2020
In Unheimliche Heimaträume. Repräsentationen von Heimat in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1918, edited by Carme Bescansa, Mario Saalbach, Iraide Talavera, Garbiñe Iztueta. Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 199–208.
Chapter / 2019
In Traducciones, adaptaciones y doble destinatario en literatura infantil y juvenil, edited by Elvira Cámara Aguilera. Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 365–377.
Chapter / 2018
In Historia, memoria y recuerdo. Escrituras de reescrituras del pasado en la narrativa en lengua alemana desde 1945, edited by Leopoldo Domínguez, Olga Hinojosa, Christiane Limbach, Manuel Maldonado Alemán. Síntesis, 2018, pp. 127–135.
