David RioDAVID RIO is Professor of American Literature at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) in Vitoria-Gasteiz. His research interests are located within the field of American Studies, with an emphasis on diaspora studies, regional literatures, and epecially western American writing and Basque-American literature. He is the author of El proceso de la violencia en la narrativa de Robert Penn Warren (1995), Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature (2007), and New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction (2014). He has co-edited six volumes on the literature of the American West, the special issue of the journal Western American Literature on "Writing the Global Western" (2019), and The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (2022). He has also edited La expansión y revisión de un mito: el Oeste norteamericano en la literatura española (2023). David Rio coordinates an international research group (REWEST) specialized in the literature and culture of the American West.

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