John Stone

I work on English books in eighteenth-century Spain, on Spanish books in eighteenth-century Britain, and on the history English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English translation. I want to prove that English-language print was important to eighteenth-century Spain, and that diasporic readers are important to that phenomenon.

With Deanne Williams, I am co-lead researcher of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded project on the shape of early Shakespeare reception in Spain and Portugal as approached via the history of reading, rather than that of criticism or translation. We are using our project to frame the study of diasporic book history.

I have held fellowships at the National Library of Scotland (as a BSECS fellow), Durham University, Yale University, the Univerity of Aberdeen, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Academic Appointments

2016:         Visiting Professor (summer term), Department of English, York University,  Toronto, Canada.

2015- :       Serra Hunter Fellow (at the rank of associate professor), Departament de  Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, , Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.   

2012-2015:  Professor agregat (associate professor), Departament de Filologia Anglesa i    Alemanya, , Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.       

2007-2012:  Professor lector (assistant professor), Departament de Filologia Anglesa i  Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.             

1994-2007:  Professor associat (adjunct professor), Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

2000-2001:   Professor associat  (adjunct professor), Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

 1988-1989:  Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University,  Montreal, Canada.

2006:           Universitat de Barcelona, Ph.D. in English. Dissertation: “Samuel Johnson, Literary Historiography and Reception," supervised by Jacqueline Hurtley.

1996:           McGill University, Montreal, Canada. MA in English. 

1988:           McGill University, Montreal, Canada. BA with First Class Honours in English and Religious Studies.