Bárbara Mujica is a professor emerita at Georgetown University who specializes in early modern Spain. She is author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on Spanish theater, mysticism, the counterreformation, and women’s writing. In 2022, her study Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform won the GEMELA Prize for best book of the year on early modern Hispanic women.
Bárbara Mujica is also a novelist. Her latest novel, Miss del Río, was named one of the best books of 2022 by Library Journal and one of the five best recent historical novels by The Washington Post. It won second place in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel competition out of thousands of submissions. It was a Target Book Club Book of the Month, and the audio version was an Apple Audio “Must Listen.” Her other novels include Frida, an international bestseller that appeared in 18 languages, Sister Teresa, adapted for the stage at The Actors Studio in Los Angeles, and I Am Venus, a winner of the Maryland Writers’ Association National Fiction Competition.
