
Cincinnati Romance Review
The Cincinnati Romance Review is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures of the University of Cincinnati. The journal was founded in 1981-82 and has been published electronically since 2008.
We invite original submissions and reviews on any subject related to Romance languages, literatures, and cultures. Submissions may be written in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.


Meet our Editors
María Paz Moreno: Executive Editor
Prof. Moreno holds a Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a Phd. in Spanish Literature from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on Contemporary Spanish Poetry, Food Studies (Gastronomy and Culinary Literature), and Spanish Women Writers. She is the author of several scholarly books and critical editions, among them El culturalismo en la poesía de Juan Gil-Albert (IGA, 2000), the critical edition of Juan Gil Albert, Poesía Completa (Pre-Textos, 2004), the volume Cartas a Juan Gil-Albert. Epistolario selecto (IGA, 2016), and the poetic anthology Concha Zardoya. Antología Poética (IGA, 2008). In the area of food studies, she has published two monographs: De la página al plato. El libro de cocina en España (Trea, 2012), and Madrid: A Culinary History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
Antony Jan Carlo Varela-Ávila: Assistant Editor
Jan Varela is a graduate student pursuing an MA in Spanish and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as a Spanish language instructor and as assistant editor for the “Cincinnati Romance Review”. As an editorial services consultant, Jan has experience in Spanish language editing, English-Spanish translation, and developmental editing and consulting. He has worked as an editor, interpreter, historian and communications specialist for nonprofit organizations, international cooperation agencies and humanitarian action programs, such as the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. His research interests include Central American Literature, sexuality, sociolinguistics, and publishing studies.
Current Issue - Volume 57 (Spring 2025)
Monographic Issue: Women Poets from Latin America and Spain
Articles
La interrupción autobiográfica en Júbilos. Poemas de niños, rosas, animales, máquinas y vientos de Carmen Conde
Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University
Lo cotidiano en la poesía de madurez de Gioconda Belli
Ivelisse Urbán, Tarleton State University
“Si tanto puede prometer mi pluma.” María de Estrada y los toros de México
Mariana C. Zinni, Queens College, CUNY
El paisaje modernista: las fronteras de otros mundos en la obra de Delmira Agustini
Veronika Bílková, University of Ostrava
Estéticas descoloniales: La filosofía Muntú y la santería como herramientas de resistencia y reconfiguración del género en la literatura afrocaribeña y afrolatina
Alexa Melissa Hurtado Montaño, Texas A&M University
Lecturas y afectos de Francisca Aguirre: análisis de sus citas y dedicatorias
Elia Saneleuterio, Universitat de València
Tres poetas, tres siglos y tres casos de representación de la identidad cultural en la poesía femenina cubana
Paulina Marlen Casañas Oliva, Universidad de Pinar del Río
Jesús A. Meza-Morales, Universidad Nebrija
Alejandra Pizarnik Read Against the Concretistas. Silence, Iconotextuality, and Negative Metapoetics
Josué Brocca, University of Cambridge
Book Reviews
Sophie Esch (Ed.) Central American Literatures as World Literature. Bloomsbury, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5013-9187-3
Reviewed by Nicasio Urbina, University of Cincinnati
González-Allende, Iker (Ed.). Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea. Egales, 2024. ISBN: 978-84-19728-65-4
Reviewed by Juan A. Godoy-Peñas, University of Cincinnati
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Cincinnati Romance Review
Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210377
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0377
ISSN 2155-8817 (online)
ISNN 0883-9816 (print)