Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Office: Stein 459

Campus P.O. Box 10A
College of the Holy Cross
One College Street
Worcester, MA 01610-2395

Phone: (508) 793-2272
Fax: (508) 793-3708
E-Mail: cstone@holycross.edu

Personal webpage

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 & Conversation
Span 304 - Aspects of Spanish American 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 - Topics in Colonial Spanish American Literature (Mesoamerican Codices; Myths and Counter-myths of the Conquista)
Span 420 - Topics in Latin American Film (Latin American Women in Film)
Lals 101 - Perspectives on Latin America
Mont 110G - Latino Images in US Film
Mont 11G - Anglo Images in Latin American Film
Wgst 101 - Introduction to Women's Studies

Primary Research Interests:

Mesoamerican Codices
Films set in Colonial Spanish America
Translations of Indigenous Traditions

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).