Linguist

Professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he has been teaching since 1989. Degree in Philology from the University of Deusto and PhD in linguistics from the University of Connecticut. His work centres on bio-linguistics, an approach to the faculty of human language from the point of view of natural science.

Uriagereka directed the graduate program at Maryland and has been a visiting lecturer at ten universities in Europe and America. He has obtained four projects from the National Science Foundation and a number of accolades, including the Euskadi Prize for Research 2001, and in 1998 the American Association of Publishers’ Best New Professional Book in Language and Linguistics Award, for Rhyme and Reason (translated into Spanish as Pies y Cabeza, Visor 2005). Uriagereka has authored or co-authored six books and edited two, written eighty professional articles or chapters, and has given more than two hundred talks on four continents.

In his work as a mentor, Uriagereka has supervised twenty PhD thesis and has collaborated on the committees of a further forty-five. He sits on several scientific panels and editorial committees (including Syntax, Probus, the Centre for Complex Dynamical Systems at Potsdam, the Asymmetry project of the University of Quebec in Montreal, and the ICREA foundation). He also works as a writer with the interdisciplinary group Musica Aperta from Washington, which has performed two of his creations at the Langsburgh Theatre, and in 2000, together with his co-author Javier Díez he was awarded the Pereda Short Novel Prize by La Comandita.

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