Education:

Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1992 

M.A., Columbia University, 1986 

B.A., cum laude, Williams College, 1983

Course Offerings:

Span 101-102 - Elementary I & II 

Span 201-202 - Intermediate I & II 

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation 

Span 303 - Aspects of Latin American and Latino Culture 

Span 305 - Introduction to Literary Genres 

Span 312 - Survey of Spanish American Literature I 

Span 316 - Advanced Spanish Grammar 

Span 362 - Historical Novel in Spanish America

Span 409 - Mesoamerican Codices 

Span 420 - Latin American Women in Film

Primary Research Interests:

Mesoamerican Codices 

Early Missionary Writings in the New World 

Films set in Colonial Spanish America 

Translations of Indigenous Traditions

Recent Publications:

Books:

Stone, Cynthia. In Place of Gods and Kings: Authorship and Identity in the 'Relación de Michoacán'. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,2004.

Articles:

Stone, Cynthia. "Confronting Stereotypes: The Brevísima as Homily, not History." In Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas. Eds. Santa Arias and Eyda Merediz. MLA Series on Teaching World Literature, 2008.

---. "Beyond the Female Gaze: María Luisa Bemberg's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." CiberLetras 13, 2005.

---. "Aguirre Goes to the Movies: 20th-Century Visions of Colonial-Era 'Relaciones'," in Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes, eds. Alejandro Varderi and Nora Glickman. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, Special Issue No. 2, 2005.

---. "The Filming of Colonial Spanish America," Colonial Latin American Review 5, 2 (1996).

---. "Multiple Authorship in the 'Relación de Michoacán'," Hacia un nuevo canon literario, ed. JoAnne Engelbert (New Hampshire: Ediciones del Norte, 1995).

---. "Rewriting Indigenous Traditions: The Burial Ceremony of the Cazonci," Colonial Latin American Review 3, 1-2 (1994).

---. "El lector implícito de 'Rayuela' y los blancos de la narración," Los ochenta mundos de Cortázar: ensayos, ed. Fernando Burgos (Madrid: Edi-6, 1987).