Gorka Basterretxea Santiso
Assistant Teaching Professor
Gorka Basterretxea Santiso (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the World Languages and Cultures Department since 2023. His main area of interest is sociolinguistics and bilingualism particularly in Spain and the US and he is interested in discovering new ways of introducing his research on language variation into teaching. Originally from the Basque Country, he completed a PhD and an MS at Georgetown University, an MA at Illinois State University, and a BA at Universidad de Salamanca.
2022 (Nominated). Dr. Karen Gale Exceptional PhD Student Award. Graduate Student Awards, Georgetown University.
2018 Charter Department Graduate Student Excellence Award, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Illinois State University.
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (Accepted). “Fallo garrafal y común entre vascoparlantes:” Grammatical Gender Agreement Attitudes and Salience in Basque-Spanish Contact. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18(1).
Fernández-Mallat, V., & Basterretxea Santiso, G. (Accepted). Actitudes lingüísticas hacia el voseo y el tuteo en el español de Medellín y Santiago: Un estudio comparativo basado en la técnica imitativa. Lengua y Sociedad: Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada.
Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Ornelles, A. (2025). Cross-regional comparison of attitudes and perceptions towards the visual linguistic landscape: Basque Country and Galicia. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2025.2456661
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2024). “Aquí toman mucho sopa:” Linguistic Variables as Predictors of Non-Standard Gender Agreement Production in Basque Spanish. Open Linguistics, 10(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0025
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2023). The impact of the myths about Spanish and its speakers in the US population. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 100(8), 755-777. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2023.49
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2023). Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: A case study in Ondarroa. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2256781
Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Sanz, C. (2023). Perspectives and Motives Involved in Study Abroad: Covid, Race, and SES. L2 Journal (special issue edited by Robert Blake: Studying abroad during COVID and beyond), 15(2), 10-28. https://doi.org/10.5070/L215260145
Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Sanz, C. (2022). Study abroad and student decision making in times of Covid: A mixed methods study. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i1.649
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2022). A triangulation study on gender agreement in Spanish by native Basque speakers. Revista Española de Lingüística (RSEL), 52(1), 7-37. https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.52.1.1
Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2021). La comparación de pronombres de segunda persona del singular en el español peninsular y en el euskera: ¿Una misión imposible? Lingüística y Literatura, 79(1), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a12
External:
2022-2023 National Science Foundation (BCS-2234506), Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant LING-DDRI ($11,923), Dissertation: Linguistic Transfer in Basque Spanish: Gender Agreement Production and Attitudes.
Internal:
2024 Full-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund ($1,955), Office of the Provost, Northeastern University. To work on “Gender Agreement in Basque: Triangulation of Production & Attitudes”.
2024 Global Experience Office Faculty Fellowship (GEOFF) for the 2024-2025 Dialogue of Civilization (DOC) cycle ($7,500). To design a new Dialogue of Civilization in collaboration with Dr. Cristina Pérez-Arranz, Northeastern University, USA.
Spring 2023 Conference Travel Grant ($300), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2023 at Portland, Oregon, USA.
Fall 2022 Dissertation Research Travel Grant ($1,830), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Linguistic Transfer in Basque Spanish: Gender Agreement Production and Attitudes”.
Fall 2022 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($500), Georgetown University. To attend the conference LASSO 2022 at Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Summer 2022 Graduate Student Research Award ($2,000), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Gender Agreement in the Basque Country Spanish: Production & Perceptions”.
Spring 2022 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($321), Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2022 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Spring 2022 Conference Travel Grant ($500), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2022 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fall 2021 GradGov Research Project Award (GRPA) ($500), GradGov and the Graduate School, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Gender Agreement in the Basque Country Spanish: Production & Perceptions”.
2020 Scholarship to attend a 1-week course at MultiLing, the University of Oslo (Sept 7-11), Initiative for Multilingual Studies (Georgetown University) & MultiLing (University of Oslo). (Not able to attend due to Covid-19).
Spring 2020 Conference Travel Grant ($275), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference ALFALito 2019 at Queens College New York, USA.
Fall 2019 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($450), Georgetown University. To attend the conference Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2019) at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
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Education
Georgetown University, Hispanic Linguistics, PhD
Georgetown University, MS
Illinois State University, MA
Universidad de Salamanca, BA -
Contact
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Address
428 Meserve Hall
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115 -
Office Hours
Monday 1:45-2:45 pm and Thursday 10:30-11:30 am
And by appointment.
Location: 428 Meserve Hall or via Zoom
