Olga Romero Mestas

Visiting Teaching Faculty
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Contact Information

Office Location
DIF 354
Email
oromeromestas@fsu.edu
Program
Spanish

Professor Romero Mestas (Ph.D. in Spanish, Florida State University; MA in Latin-American studies, Universidad de Camaguey; BA in Journalism, Universidad de La Habana) is a Visiting Teaching Faculty of Spanish. Her research interests include topics from Colonial studies and Theory of resistance, such as the expression of political resistance in literary work, and alternative resistance through fraternal societies, particularly in colonial and post-colonial spaces. Professor Romero Mestas is also a fiction writer.

Research Interests 

Colonial Studies 

Hispanic Literature, 19th and 20th centuries 

Fraternal societies and Freemasonry 

Theory of Resistance 

Resistance in Language and Literature 

Courses Taught 

Elementary Spanish I, II (SPN 1120, SPN 1121) 

Intermediate Spanish I, II (SPN 2220, SPN 2240) 

Spanish Reading and Conversation (SPN 3400) 

Approaching Hispanic Literature (SPW 3030) 

Introduction to Humanities (HUM 2020) 

Selected Publications 

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2023). Antihéroe. In M. Minguez Arias, M. Piña and N. Saavedra (Ed), #NiLocasNiSolas: Narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos. Chicago, IL: El BeiSmAn PrESs. 

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2019). Pajaritos, Escabeche. Camaguey, Cuba: Editorial Ácana. 

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2018). A ambos lados del Estrecho: diáspora y exilio en la literatura de Carlos Victoria en los Estados Unidos. In Alberto Sosa Cabanas (Ed.), Reading Cuba: discurso literario y geografía transcultural. Valencia, Spain: Aduana Vieja Editorial.  

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2016). William Faulkner. In Yoan Pico (Ed.), En islotes de intimidad y silencio. Camaguey, Cuba: Editorial Ácana.  

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2011). Proyecto nacional. Todo un cortejo caprichoso. Holguin, Cuba: Ediciones La Luz.  

  • Romero Mestas, O. M. (2011). Ana en sombras. Camaguey, Cuba: Editorial Ácana. National Literary Award Puerta de Papel.