Nieves Romero-Díaz

Nieves Romero-Díaz
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures (2005-2006)

Specialization
Spanish Renaissance and Baroque prose literature, in particular the relation between literature and history; women writers

Nieves Romero-Diaz has taught a variety of language and literature course at Mount Holyoke, including Spanish 102, 200, 209, and 210. Her literature course topics have covered feminism in early modern Spain and the idea of coexistence between Arabs, Jews, and Christians before the 1700s.

A member of the European studies and Romance languages and literatures programs, Romero-Diaz has published a book on the seventeenth-century Spanish short novel entitled Nueva nobleza, nueva novela: Reescribiendo la cultura urbana del Barroco (Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2002). The book examines the novela, one of the two major literary genres in Baroque literary culture in Golden Age Spain, as a social phenomenon that reflected and helped define the urban aristocracy of the time. Romero-Diaz focuses on four authors, two of whom are women, chosen for the differing social and economic perspectives from which they write.

Romero-Diaz’s articles have appeared in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Laberinto, Voz y Letra as well in book collections, proceedings, and other scholarly publications. She is currently working on an annotated edition/translation of the political writings of María de Guevara (?-1683) and is the president of the Asociación de mujeres escritoras de España y las Américas (1300–1800).