Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas is the Etxepare Lecturer in Basque Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an M.A in English from the University of Nevada, Reno, and BAs in Art History and Journalism from the University of the Basque Country. Her research involves interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the politics of memory and the representation of conflict in cultural production amid globalization, particularly in the Basque and Irish contexts. She is also interested in postcolonial, indigenous, and migration studies.  She is currently working on a book manuscript on the representation of complex histories of violence in Basque and Irish literature from the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also conducting research on a second book project that analyzes the multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory trajectories of Guernica through its multiple remediations.