Research Interests:

Dr Pym’s research interests centre on early modern Spanish culture and society, on kingship and law, the comedia, Cervantes, Calderón, the Mystics, and the visual arts, especially the work of Velázquez. Dr Pym also has an interest in translation. Awarded a research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2006, he has most recently completed a monograph tracing the history of the Gypsies of late medieval and early modern Spain.

Publications:

• The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain, 1425-1783 (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) — here is a PDF file of some reviews
• (ed.) Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2006).
• (with Mark Allinson) Te toca: A New Communicative Spanish Course (London: Arnold, 2002)
  
  
• 'Moriscos, moriscos antiguos, and Old Christians: (Re)-Tracing Some Religious and Cultural Fault Lines in Early Modern Spain', Journal of Romance Studies, 7.1 (2007)
• 'Law and Disorder: Anti-Gypsy Legislation and Its Failures in Seventeenth-Century Spain', in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain, ed. Richard J. Pym (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007), pp. 41-56
• 'The Errant Fortunes of "La gitanilla" and Cervantes's Performing Gypsies', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 12.1 (2006), 15-37
• 'The Pariah Within: The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain', Journal of Romance Studies, 4.2 (2004), 21-35
• 'Drama in Golden-Age Spain: The State of the Art', Shakespeare Studies, 31 (2003), 21-31
• 'Art, Agency and Authority in Calderón's Darlo todo y no dar nada', Modern Language Review, 98.1 (2003), 84-101
• (with Mark Allinson) 'Hablando se entiende la gente: las simulaciones como método para re-enfocar y reanimar la clase de español avanzado', Donaire, 19 (2003), 50-55
• 'Negotiated Voices: The Vida of Teresa de Jesús', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2000), 225-38
• 'Telling Histories: Trends in Historical Criticism and Some Notes on El alcalde de Zalamea', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 7 (1999), 75-87
• 'Interdiction of Closure in Velázquez's Fable of Arachne', Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (1999), 189-99
• 'Tragedy and the Construct Self: Considering the Subject in Spain's Seventeenth-Century Comedia', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 75 (1998), 273-92