Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ph.D.
Professor of World Languages and Cultures / Spanish
George and Louise Peters Professor of World Languages and Cultures
Co-Director of the OWU Honors Program
Ohio Wesleyan University
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Dr. Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas is Professor of Spanish and the George and Louise Peters Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Ohio Wesleyan University. Her research focuses on studying Early Modern Spanish Literature, especially 17th century theatre and its contemporary productions. Due to the complexity these texts can convey for undergraduate students, in her classes she often employs hands-on and project-based assignments to help learners obtain a better understanding of this literature and also to have unique and engaging experiences that would be difficult to access otherwise. She is currently co-authoring a monograph that focuses on how Latinx theatre practitioners are adapting and producing 17th-century Hispanic texts for modern audiences by highlighting and creating awareness of their own reality, lived experiences, and socio-cultural background as BIPOC artists.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Hispanic Literature. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Master of Arts. Hispanic Studies. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
Bachelor of Arts.Visual Arts (Painting and Graphic Arts). Universidad Interamericana,
San Germán, PR.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024-Present. Professor of World Languages and Cultures. Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, OH.
Summer 2024. Faculty Member. Experiential Learning Workshops. Summer course "Docentes a escena," directed by Dr. Ainhoa Amestoy. Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), Santander, Spain.
Fall 2017-2024. Associate Profesor of Spanish. Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, OH.
Fall 2011-2017. Assistant Professor of Spanish. Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, OH.
Fall 2008 – Spring 2011. Lecturer of Spanish. Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Fall 2006 and 2007. Visiting Lecturer of Spanish. Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
2004–2008. Teaching Associate of Spanish Language. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1999 – 2002. Teaching Associate. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
COURSES TAUGHT AT OHIO WESLEYAN
Spanish 499: Women and Power in Early Modern Spain
Spanish 365: Cervantes and the Quixote
Spanish 300.7: Sorcerers and Witches in Spanish Literature
Spanish 300.13: When a Woman Runs the Show: Early Modern Hispanic Theatre on the Contemporary Stage
Spanish 369: Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Spanish 350: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 310: Spanish Conversation and Culture Through Film
Spanish 250: Spanish Composition
Spanish 225: Continuing Spanish
Spanish 226: Spanish for the Professions
Spanish 110 & 111: Beginning Spanish I & II
UC 160: The OWU Experience
PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
Book (Monograph)
*** (Under contract University of Toronto Press) Siglo Latinx: Rewriting Early Modern Hispanic Texts for Diverse Audiences. Co-authored with Erin A. Cowling.
Books (Edited Volumes)
La comedia entre dos mundos. Eds. Erin Cowling, Esther Fernández, Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas & Susan Paun de García. Sociedad Menéndez Pelayo, España. 2024.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater. Eds. E. Cowling, M. García, T. de Miguel Magro, G.Y. Nieto-Cuebas. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Review: Brown, Katherine L. Renaissance Quarterly, 76.2 (2023): 767-9.
Review: Kallendorf, Hilaire. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 24.1 (2023): 175-7.
Review: Kello, Robin. Comedia Performance, 19.1 (2022): 194-8.
Review: Boyle, Margaret. Bulletin of the Comediantes, 72.2 (2021): 95-7.
Review: Fernández, Esther. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature 75.4 (2021): 264-6.
Edited Special Issues
Co-editor. Teaching Social Justice Through Early Modern Spanish Literature and Cultures. Journal of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART). Eds. Erin Cowling, Ana Méndez-Oliver, Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas. Spring 2025 (Volume 32, Issue 1).
Co-editor. The Comedia Under Siege. Romance Quarterly. Vo. 69.2 (2022) Eds. Erin Cowling, Esther Fernández & G.Y. Nieto-Cuebas.
Co-editor. Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Vol. 19, (2022). Eds. Erin Cowling, Esther Fernández & Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas.
Articles & Book Chapters
*** Indicates co-authored essays
*** Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda and Henry Blume. "The Witching Hour: Interdisciplinary Cross-Course Experience for Social Justice Oriented Pedagogy." Journal of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART). Spring 2025 (Volume 32, Issue 1).
*** Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda and Erin Cowling. "Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom." Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Esther Fernández. Tamesis. 2023, 285-99.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. "Lope Enters With His Entourage: Metatheatricality in Ignacio Amestoy's Lope y sus Doroteas." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Romance Languages. Vol. 77. No. 2 (2023). 60–71.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. "Subversive Representations in Tirso’s Amazonas en las Indias." Romance Notes. Vol. 62. No. 1 (2022). 153-163.
*** Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda; Hannah Treadway, Jasmine Lew, and Paula Rodríguez. "Medieval Ballads in Miniature and Our New Gold: Collaborative Theatre Projects in the Digital Era." Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Vol. 19, No. 1 (2022). 85-100.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. "Grumelot and Escuela Nave 73: Defying Traditional Stage Presence through Digital Media." Romance Quarterly. Vo. 69.2 (2022). 1-9.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. “Systemic Oppression in Morfeo Teatro’s production of El coloquio de los perros.” Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre. Eds. T. De Miguel Magro, M. García, E. Cowling and G. Nieto-Cuebas. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. “The Sierra Morena Episodes in Don Quixote, from Prose to Visual Narrative.”
e-Humanista/Cervantes 8 (2020), pp. 215-234.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. “Turning Students’ Projects Into Shareable Digital Content in the Early Modern Spanish Class.” Sixteenth Century Journal 51, no. S1 (2020), pp. 273-276.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. "Experiential Learning and the Spanish Comedia: Process and Outcomes." Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen. Vol. 2. Eds. E. Fernández and J. Y. Porras. UPS, New Orleans, 2020.1-15.
*** Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda and Erin Cowling. "Teatro Inverso’s Rosaura: Recasting La vida es sueño through Storytelling." Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Vol. 17, No. 1 (2020), pp. 70-89.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. “Amazons in the Indies or Witches in the Amazon?: Representing Otherness Through the Stereotype of the Witch.” The Other America: Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater. Ed. Gladys Robalino. Bucknell University Press, 2014. 39-59.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. "Adaptación y puesta en escena de Marta the Divine / Marta la piadosa de Tirso de Molina." Atenea: A bilingual Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. 33 (2013) 9-21.
Nieto-Cuebas, Glenda. “Inversión y alteración de las normas sociales en tres entremeses: Las brujas (A.Moreto), Las brujas fingidas y berza en boca (anónimo) y Las brujas (F. De Castro).” Anagnórisis: Revista de investigación teatral. 7 (2013) 18-38.
Other publications
*** Indicates co-authored interviews and translations
Theatre Review: Historias amorosas no tan ejemplares o Lo que pasa en el sarao se queda en el sarao
by Paola Izquierdo. Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. 2025. 66-70.
***Translation co-translated with German E. Vargas Ramos. “Interlude of the Witches, by Agustín Moreto" The Entremés for Performance Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain. Eds. Wilks, Kerry K. and Borden, Ian M. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts. Liverpool University Press, 2024. [Includes an introduction and the Spanish version of the play]
*** Interview: Co-conducted with Erin Cowling. The Making of the Shiny Knight of Chicanos, Part One. A Conversation with Octavio Solis. Howlround Theatre Commons. 2023.
*** Interview: Co-conducted with Erin Cowling. The Making of the Shiny Knight of Chicanos, Part Two. A Conversation with Octavio Solis. Howlround Theatre Commons. 2023.
*** Theatre Review: Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega, directed by Mariano de Paco Serrano, Teatro Círculo, October 7-23, 2022. Co-authored with Erin Cowling. Latin American Theatre Review. Latin American Theatre Review. Spring 2023. 87-92.
Interview: "Reimaginando a Lope para el siglo XXI: Conversación con Ignacio Amestoy y Ainhoa Amestoy." Comedia Performance. Vol. 20, No. 1 (2023). pp. 210-221.
*** Interview: "Creación de los clásicos para el siglo XXI: Conversación con GRUMELOT."Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro. Co-conducted with Erin Cowling. Introduction by Esther Fernández. Vol. 10, No. 1. (2022). 791-802.
*** Interview: "Los clásicos de la mano de Natalia Menéndez." Comedia Performance. Vol. 19, No. 1 (2022). Co-conducted with Erin Cowling & Esther Fernández. Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Vol. 18, No. 1 (2022). 151-162.
*** Interview: "Los nuevos Desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas: Conversación con Ainhoa Amestoy." Co-conducted with María Alonso. Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Vol. 18, No. 1 (2022). 179-190.
*** Interview: (co-conducted with Erin Cowling) "Novohispunk Teatro: Desde la distancia social hasta tu propio balcón." Latin American Theatre Review. Fall 2021. 155-168.
*** Interview: (co-conducted with Erin Cowling) "Entrevista con EFE TRES Teatro: El Merolico confinado" Comedia Performance. Vol. 18, No. 1 (2021). 115-129.
*** Interviews (co-conducted and co-edited with T. de Miguel Magro, M. García and E. Cowling): Harley Erdman, Gina Kauffman, Ben Gunter, Teatro Inverso, and Ian Borden. Social Justice in the Spanish Comedia. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Interview: Entrevista con Francisco Negro: Compromiso social en producciones de Morfeo Teatro. Comedia Performance. Vol. 17, No. 1 (2020) 98-106.
Interview: Conversación con Fernando Villa y Allan Flores: EFE Tres Teatro. Anagnórisis: Revista de Investigación Teatral. 20 (Dec. 2019)
471-483.
*** Interview: Teatro Inverso. Anagnórisis: Revista de Investigación Teatral. 18 (Dec. 2018) 239-245. Co-conducted with Johanna Adrian Burr and Sarah Gielink.
*** Translation co-translated with German E. Vargas Ramos. Theater play by the Spanish writer Francisco de Castro, published in 1742. “Interlude of the Witches” Metamorphosis: A Journal of Literary Translation. Spring 2015. 23.1. 212-231. (Peer Reviewed)
Encyclopedia Entries: "Caer para levantar” / “Hacer del contrario amigo.” Diccionario de personajes de Agustín Moreto. Eds. Javier Huerta Calvo, Héctor Urzáiz Tortajada and Julio Vélez-Sainz. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2011.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
January 10, 2025. Roundtable presenter. Siglo Latinx: New Perspectives on Spanish Golden Age Theater Performance. MLA Conference (Modern Language Association). New Orleans.
January 10, 2025. Poster exhibit presenter. Siglo Latinx: Pedagogy in Action. MLA Conference (Modern Language Association). New Orleans.
Sept. 12, 2024. “Las novelas de Zayas en bululú: El arte de narrar ‘historias no
tan ejemplares’ para el siglo XXI." AHCT / AITENSO Conference: Adaptation, Transformation, and Relevance of Early Modern Theater. UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
April 20, 2024. Co-presented with Henry Blume. The Witching Hour: Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Cross-Course Experience for Social Justice Oriented Pedagogy. The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
April 19, 2024. Contemporary Adaptations of Spanish Golden Age Theatre: Approaching Gen Z through Digital Media. The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
Nov. 1, 2023. «Papá Calacas y la visión transfronteriza de Octavio Solís en sus adaptaciones áureas» AITENSO (Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro). Puebla, México.
April 21-22, 2023. Lope Enters with his Entourage: Metatheatricality in Lope y sus Doroteas. The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
March 10, 2023. Presenter. Roundtable: Safe Spaces for Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World. Renaissance Society of America 2023. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
July 4, 2022. Recontextualizing Don Quixote: Immigration, Immersion and Intertextuality. 2022 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. Almagro, Spain.
Oct. 28, 2021. Invited Speaker. Book Launch: "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" by Erin Cowling. Hosted by University of Toronto Press. YouTube Live / Zoom.
July 5, 2021. Medieval Ballads in Miniature: A Collaborative Theatre Project. 2021 AHCT Virtual Symposium. Co-presented with Paula Rodríguez, Hannah Treadway & Jasmine Lew.
April 15, 2021. Re-Inventing the Spanish Comedia in the Wake of Covid-19. Renaissance Society of America 2021.
July 15, 2020. Turning Student Projects into Shareable Digital Content in the Early Modern Spanish Class. 2020 AHCT Virtual Symposium. Co-presented with Paige Hunter and Bela Starinchak.
April 11, 2019. From Theory to Practice: Making the Spanish Comedia Accessible to Undergraduate Students. 2019 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas. Co-presented with J.Adrian Burr and Sarah Gielink.
March 19, 2019. Presenter. Roundtable: Storytelling and the Spanish Comedia: Adapting Classical Theater for Modern Audiences. Co-presenter with Erin Cowling and Teatro Inverso: Paula Rodríguez and Sandra Arpa. Renaissance Society of America 2019.
April 13, 2018. Systemic Oppression in El coloquio de los perros. 2018 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
April 22, 2017. Presenter. Roundtable: Reimagining the Spanish Comedia in the Transmedia Age. 2017 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
April 14, 2016. “Alegoría de América en Amazonas en las Indias.” 69th Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington.
March 31, 2016. “Engaging Students through the Performance of the Spansih Comedia.” 2016 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas. (Panel organizer of the Special session: “Teaching the Spanish Comedia: Theory, Performance and Student Engagement in the Classroom.”)
January 7, 2016. "Women, Spectacle, and Social Disorder in the Corral de Comedias." MLA (Modern Language Association). Austin, Texas.
March 2015. "Graciosos y lo sobrenatural en La dama duende y Amar por señas." Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
April 3, 2014. “Living a Dog-like Life: Re-writing El coloquio de los perros from the stage.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 28, 2014. “ 'El demonio de los Andes': representación de Francisco de Carvajal en Amazonas en las Indias.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
April 20, 2013. “Inmundicia y contaminación social: el cuerpo de la bruja según la Relación del auto de fe de Logroño (1610).” 66th Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington.
March 9, 2013. “ ‘Bruja, monstruo o cocodrilo será, pues tanto se esconde’: humor en El conde Partinuplés de Ana Caro.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
March 8, 2012. “¿Amazonas en las Indias o brujas en el Amazonas?: la otredad a través del estereotipo de la bruja.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
March 31, 2011. “Deviance and Contamination: The Body of the Witch in Early Modern Spain.” Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Mount Holyoke College, MA.
March 4, 2011. “ ‘Las brujas y su mundo’ en tres entremeses: Las brujas (A. Moreto), Las brujas fingidas y berza en boca (anónimo) y Las brujas (F. De Castro).” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
March 6, 2010. “Traducción, adaptación y puesta en escena de Marta the Divine / Marta la piadosa de Tirso de Molina, por el Departamento de teatro de UMass-Amherst.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas.
February 27, 2010. “Women on Stage: Translation and adaptation of Tirso’s Marta la piadosa, Marta the Divine.” Symposium: Women on Stage in the Spanish Golden Age: “Remember, Marta, I’m a Woman Too.” Hosted by the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst.
GRANTS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS (Selected)
GRANTS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS (Selected)
2025-2026: OWU Teaching, Learning, and Innovation. Project: Studying a New Season of Hispanic Classical Theater.
2024-25: Theory to Practice Grant. Project: Title: From Women to Women: Female Narratives in Early Modern Spain. To host theater production, workshops and talks for SPAN 499: Women and Power in Early Modern Spain and the OWU community.
2023: Collaborator. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Government of Canada for the project “Siglo Latinx: Early Modern Spanish Theatre in the North American Context.” Main applicant Erin Cowling, MacEwan University. ($94,296 (CAD) / $70,236 (US) )
2023: Theory to Practice Grant. Project: Ethnicity and Classical Reception on the Contemporary Hispanic Stage. In collaboration with Hank Blume (faculty), Katherine DiJulius and Elizabeth Sumoza (Students). To study the relevance of Greek and Roman drama on the contemporary Hispanic stage.
Fall 2022: Special Scholarly Leave Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to write the book LatinX Voices on Stage: Rewriting Early Modern Hispanic Texts for Diverse Audiences. (Only one scholarly leave was given this year)
2022: Theory to Practice Grant. Project: Exploring LatinX Productions of Spanish Early Modern Plays. To conduct interviews and research on: Teatro Círculo, Repertorio Español, and Octavio Solis’ work.
2021: Endowed chair, George and Louise Peters Professorship. Ohio Wesleyan University.
2021: The David Gitlitz Comedia Prize in Pedagogy and Mentorship. Awarded by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre.
2021: Co-recipient. Theory to Practice Grant: Our New Gold: Golden Age Spanish Monologues Reinterpreted (A Digital Theatre Festival)
2020: Thomas E. Wenzlau (TEW) Research Grant – Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to conduct research in Spain. (postponed due to COVID-19)
2020: Theory to Practice Grant for a student created performance: Medieval Ballads in Miniature (Original Title: Outreach and Shadow Puppets: Re-writing Early Modern Texts for Younger Audiences.)
2019: Co-recipient. Theory to Practice Grant: Performance and Storytelling in Spanish Classical Theatre. Workshop and performance Rosaura by theater company Teatro Inverso (Spain).
2018: Theory to Practice Grant: Performance and Theater Workshop on Spanish Classical Theater. Workshop and performance El Merolico by theater company EFE Tres (Mexico).
2018: Co-recipient. Theory to Practice Grant: Female Empowerment in Hispanic Classical Theater. Research and workshops in Spain with two OWU students.
2017: Thomas E. Wenzlau (TEW) Research Grant – Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to conduct research in Spain.
2016: Co-recipient - Ohio Five / OSU Mellon Language Grant to organize the Symposium: Reimagining the Spanish Comedia in the Transmedia Age, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan and Denison University.
2016: Pedagogic Travel Grant (Granted by the OWU Teaching, Learning and Cross Cultural Programming Committee)
2015: OWU Presidential Award for Racial and Cultural Diversity.
2015: Theory to Practice Grant: Spanish Classical Theater and its Relevance to Contemporary Society. Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to travel to Spain with two students and do research on Spanish Classical Theater.
2014: Co-recipient - Theory to Practice Grant - OWU. To co-lead student research project on Nationalism and Citizenship in Puerto Rico.
2013-2014: Travel Learning Course Funding - Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to coordinate, lead and teach a 10 day travel learning course in Spain.
2013-2014: Thomas E. Wenzlau (TEW) Research Grant – Awarded by Ohio Wesleyan University to conduct research in Spain.
June 2013: Mellon Summer Fellowship – Andrew W. Mellon Institute in Spanish Paleography at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
2010-2011: Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, MA.
2010: Dissertation Travel Research Grant –Awarded by the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (Selected)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (Selected)
2024-2026. Forum Executive Committee member. MLA (Modern Language Association) LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama.
Nov. 10, 2023. Symposium co-organizer in association with Teatro Círculo, New York City.
(2021-Present) Academic advisor. Our New Gold Digital Storytelling Festival.
2022 - Co-organizer / AHCT Symposium in Almagro, Spain.
(2020-2023) Vice President for Membership and Registration. The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
Summer 2021 - Co-director / AHCT Virtual Symposium: "Recasting the Comedia: Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century."
2020-2021 - Acting Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. OWU.
Summer 2020 - Co-organizer / AHCT Virtual Symposium
(2016-Present) Board member of The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
2017-2019. Director. Ohio Wesleyan Program in Salamanca, Spain.
COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS WITH STUDENTS (Selected)
COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS WITH STUDENTS (Selected)
Our New Gold: A Digital Theatre Festival (2021)
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Medieval Ballads in Miniature (2020)
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