��������

Faculty

Daniel Frost��

Professor
Chair, Department of Spanish
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: 18th- & 19th-Century Spanish Literature; Literature & Visual Technology; Landscape Studies
Email: dfrost@holycross.edu��
Office: Stein 407 Phone: (508) 793-3708

��

Josep Alba-Salas

Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Fields:��Spanish and Romance Linguistics; Theoretical Syntax (Spanish, Italian, and Catalan); Second Language Acquisition; Applied Linguistics
Email: jalba@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 414 Phone: (508) 793-2539

��

M. Estrella Cibreiro-Couce

Professor
Rev. John E. Brooks Chair in the Humanities
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Fields:��Women's Writing; 20th Century Spanish Theater; Film and Cultural Studies; Feminism and Literature
Email: ecibreir@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 406 Phone: (508) 793-3308

��

Bridget Franco

Professor
Ph.D. University of California - Irvine
Fields: ��Latin American Film Studies, Digital Humanities, Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) Literature and Memory Studies, Engaged Pedagogy in the Spanish-language Curriculum
Email: bfranco@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 412 Phone: (508) 793-2291

��

��

Helen Freear-Papio

Director of the Foreign Language Assistants Program
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Fields:��Contemporary Spanish Drama written by Women; 20th Century Drama and Novel; Directed Independent Language Instruction; Technology in the Language Classroom
Email: hfreear@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 458�� Phone: (508) 793-2765

��

Rodrigo Fuentes

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Fields: Prose Fiction in Spanish; Narrative and Visual Arts; Central American Testimonial Literature
Email:��rfuente@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 410 ��
Additional Information»

��

��

Francisco Gago-Jover

Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fields:��Medieval Spanish Literature; History of the Spanish Language; Lexicography; Medieval Military Art and Science; Computers in Modern Language
Email: fgagojov@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 441��Phone: (508) 793-2532

��

Elizabeth O'Connell-Inman

Director of the Directed Independent Spanish and Pedagogical Coordinator
Senior��Lecturer
M.A. Brown University
Fields: Technology in the Language Classroom; Directed Independent Language Instruction; Contemporary Latin American Literature
Email: einman@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 312��Phone: (508) 793-3412

��

Juan G. Ramos

Professor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields:��Modernismo and Avant-Gardes in Latin America, World Literature and Latin America, Decolonial Thought and Latin American cultural production
Email: jramos@holycross.edu��
Office: Stein 408��Phone: (508) 793-2607��

��

Elizabeth Spragins

Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,��Stanford University
Fields:��early modern Mediterranean studies, early modern Iberian literature, historiography,��Critical Race Studies, death studies, theories of the body
Email:��espragin@holycross.edu
Office:��Stein 405��Phone:��508-793-3961
Additional Information»

��

Cynthia L. Stone

Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Fields: Film and Cultural Studies; Protest Literature; Interrelations Among Words and Images in a Variety of Media: Mesoamerican Codices, Early Missionary Writings in the New World, Films set in Colonial Spanish America, Translations of Indigenous Traditions
Email: cstone@holycross.edu
Office:��Stein 459 Phone: (508) 793-2272

��

Ana Irene Ugarte

Assistant Professor
Fields: Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean literature,��health��humanities,��disability studies,��indigenous languages and cultures,��science fiction,��20th and 21st century Latin American fiction, and contemporary Yucatec Maya literature
Email:����augarte@holycross.edu
Office:��Stein 441�� ��Phone:��508-793-3309��
Additional Information»

��

Carolina��Blázquez Gándara

Visiting Assistant Professor��
Ph.D.��Boston University
Fields:��Social poetry of Spain, Spanish Poetry written by women, ��Migration and Identity in Spanish contemporary prose
Email:��cblazque@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 456A�� Phone: 508-793-3353�� PO Box: 59A
��

��

��

Laurie Garriga

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Transatlantic Studies, Exile, Archive, Spanish Civil War, Puerto Rican Literature, Caribbean Studies
Email: lgarriga@holycross.edu��
Office: Stein 456B
Additional Information»

��

Alberto Castillo Ventura��

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Modernism and Politics in Central America and Mexico,��Critical Theory,��Central American Studies, Migration and U.S.-Latin America Relations.
Email: acastill@holycross.edu
Office:��Stein 402

Staff

Sonia Zeglen

Coordinator, Spanish Department and Foreign Language Assistants Program
Email: szeglen@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 409A
Phone:��508 793 -3353

��

��

Faculty Emeriti

Isabel Álvarez Borland

Distinguished Professor of Arts & Humanities Emerita
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Fields: US Cuban and Latino Literature; Cuban Literature; Caribbean Literature; Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Email:��ialvarez@holycross.edu.

��

��

��

John T. Cull

Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fields European Emblem Literature, Spanish Golden Age Comedia, Spanish Golden Age Prose,
Medieval Spanish Medicine, Spanish Sentimental Fiction.

��