Bárbara Mujica is a specialist in Early Modern Spanish literature who has written extensively on mysticism, the pastoral novel, and seventeenth-century theater. Her latest book is Sophia's Daughters: Women Writers of Early Modern Spain, scheduled for publication in 2002 by Yale University Press. In addition, she has written Et in Arcadia Ego: Essays on Death in the Pastoral Novel. (1990, co-authored with Bruno Damiani), Iberian Pastoral Characters (1986), and Calderon's Characters: An Existential Point of View (1980). She has edited El texto puesto en escena: Estudios sobre la comedia en honor a Everett W. Hesse (2000, with Anita Stoll; published with a full grant from the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater), Looking at the Comedia in the Year of the Quincentennial (1993, with Sharon Voros), and Texto y espectáculo (1989). She also edited Comedia Studies at the End of the Century, a special issue of the journal Hispania (Sept. 1999).
Bárbara Mujica has published eight anthologies of Spanish and Spanish American literature: Milenio: Mil años de literatura española (2001), Antología de la literatura española: Siglos XVIII y XIX (1999), Premio Nóbel: Once grandes escritores del mundo hispánico (1997), Texto y vida: Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana (1992), Antología de la literatura española: Edad Media (1991), Antología de la literatura española: Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro (1991), Texto y vida: Introducción a la literatura española (1990), and Readings in Spanish Literature (1975). Her anthologies have been published by Georgetown University Press, Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Harcourt College Publishing.
Dr. Mujica's articles have appeared in many scholarly journals and collections. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines including The Minnesota Review, Pangolin Papers, and The Literary Review. She has also published numerous language books, the most recent being El próximo paso, published by Harcourt in 1996. Her next book is a novel based on the tumultuous relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and the rivalry between Frida and her sister Cristina for Diego's affection. Scheduled for publication in 2000 by Overlook, the book will also be released in German by Fisher Verlag and in Spanish by Plaza y Janés. Barbara Mujica's other book-length fiction includes The Deaths of Don Bernardo (novel, 1990), Sanchez across the Street (stories, 1997), Far from My Mother's Home (stories, 1999), and Affirmative Actions! (2000). Far from My Mother's Home is currently being translated into French.
As book review editor for Américas, the cultural organ of the Organization of American States, Dr. Mujica regularly reviews new books from Latin America and interviews Latin American authors. Over 130 of her reviews and interviews were published in Books of the Américas: Reviews and Interviews from Américas Magazine, 1990-1995 (1997). A second collection, covering the years 1996-2000 will be published in 2001. Dr. Mujica's articles on Hispanic culture and language have appeared in hundreds of major newspapers and magazines.
Dr. Mujica is a member of the editorial boards of Bulletin of the Comediantes and Hispania. She has lectured widely on Golden Age theater in the United States and abroad. In March 2000 she was Master of Ceremonies and Discussant at the Golden Age Theater Festival in El Paso, Texas.
Bárbara Mujica is a professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, where she teaches Early Modern Spanish literature and Latin American culture. Hispanomundo has been classroom tested extensively in her Colloquium on Hispanic Society. Dr. Mujica also directs El Retablo, a Spanish-language theater group.
