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
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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 441Phone: (508) 793-2532
Elizabeth O'Connell-Inman
Director of the Directed Independent Spanish and Pedagogical Coordinator
SeniorLecturer
M.A. Brown University
Fields: Technology in the Language Classroom; Directed Independent Language Instruction; Contemporary Latin American Literature
Email: einman@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 312Phone: (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 408Phone: (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 405Phone:508-793-3961
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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,healthhumanities,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
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CarolinaBlázquez 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
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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.