Bárbara Mujica is an American scholar, novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is an Emeritus Professor of Spanish at
Georgetown University.[1] Her novels include Frida (2001), Sister Teresa (2007), and Miss del Río (2022).
Her writing career began with writing short stories, and she also taught Spanish literature.[2] Mujica was on the board of directors for the Washington Review from 1994 through 1998.[3][4]
In the late 1990s, Mujica developed a draft for what became the biographical novel Frida, based on the life of
Frida Kahlo, which was first published in 2001[5] and has since been translated into 18 languages.[2][6] In 2007, she published the historical novel Sister Teresa, about the woman who became Saint
Teresa of Ávila, and the book was translated into Spanish in 2017.[2] Her next novel, I am Venus, a fictional biography of the model for the La Venus del espejo painting by
Diego Velázquez, was published in 2013.[2] Her novel Miss del Rio, published in 2022, is about the life of the movie star
Dolores del Río.[2][7]
In 2019, an essay collection was published to honor her scholarly work, titled Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica.[1][8]
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^Additional reviews of Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
Gyulamiryan, Tatevik (September 2020). "Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica ed. by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas (review)". Hispania. 103 (3): 423–424.
doi:
10.1353/hpn.2020.0074 – via Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson).
Fernández, Esther (May 2021). "Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: a tribute to Bárbara Mujica: edited by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. De Armas, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2019". Social History. 46 (2): 221–222.
doi:
10.1080/03071022.2021.1896237 – via SocINDEX with Full Text.
Coolidge, Grace E. (September 2021). "Women warriors in early modern Spain: a tribute to Bárbara Mujica: edited by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2019". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 22 (3): 441–443.
doi:
10.1080/14636204.2021.1960756 – via Academic Search Complete.
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Jimenez, Migdalia (September 2022). "Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood". Library Journal. 147 (9) – via Education Research Complete.