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Professor Romero-Díaz completed her BA (licenciatura) in Spanish Philology at the Universidad de Córdoba and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish at Univeristy of Oregon. She specializes in Spanish Renaissance and Baroque prose literature, particularly the relation between literature and history, as well as women writers. Also an active participant in the European Studies and Romance Languages programs, Romero-Díaz has taught a variety of courses since her arrival at Mount Holyoke in 1999. Her course topics include feminisim in Early Modern Spain, and the coexistence of Arabs, Jews and Christians in medieval and early modern times. She is the author of Nueva nobleza, nueva novela: Reescribiendo la cultura urbana del Barroco on the seventeenth-century Spanish short novel and urban culture (Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2002). Her articles can be found in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Laberinto, Voz y Letra, and other scholarly publications. Currently, Romero-Días is preparing an annotated edition/translation of María de Guevara’s political writings. She is also the president of the Asociación de mujeres escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800).