Faculty
Josep Alba-Salas
Professor
Chair, Department of Spanish
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
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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
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Bridget Franco
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California - Irvine
Fields: Contemporary Latin American Literature; 20th- & 21st-Century Southern Cone Literature and Film; Philosophy and Politics in Literature
Email: bfranco@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 412 Phone: (508) 793-2291
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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
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Daniel Frost
Program Director, Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Associate Professor
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
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Rodrigo Fuentes
Assistant 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 441 Phone: (508) 793-2532
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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
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Juan G. Ramos
Associate Professor, On Research Leave AY 2021-2022
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
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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 456 Phone: 508-793-3961
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Cynthia L. Stone
Professor, On Sabbatical AY 2021-2022
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
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Ellen Lokos
Lecturer
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: Golden Age Spanish Literature; Women's Writing; Literature & Performance
Email: elokos@holycross.edu
Office Stein 441
Luigi Patruno
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Visual Studies, Urban Culture, Political Theory, Intellectual History
Email: lpatruno@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 456B Phone: 508-793-3954
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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 402 Phone: 508-793-3309
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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
Office hours: W-11-12 and F 11-1pm. And by appointment
Laurie Garriga
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Transatlantic Studies, Exile, Archive, Spanish Civil War, Puerto Rican Literature, Caribbean Studies
Email: lgarriga@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 405
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Alberto Castillo Ventura
Visiting Instructor
Email: acastill@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 402
Staff
Judith Powell
Coordinator, Spanish Department and Foreign Language Assistants Program
Email: jpowell@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 402
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.
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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.
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