Esther Castro Cuenca

Esther Castro Cuenca is a Senior Lecturer and the Spanish Language Program Director at Mount Holyoke College's Department of Romance Languages and Cultures. She teaches Spanish language courses at various levels and specializes in linguistics and foreign language pedagogy.

• Education: Licenciatura in Hispanic Philology from Universidad Complutense (Madrid)
• M.A. in the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija
• M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Her research focuses on second language acquisition, particularly examining inalienable possession structures in Spanish as a second language through cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistic frameworks.