Jill Syverson-Stork was raised in Santiago, Chile where she attended a bilingual school. She graduated from Smith College and received her doctorate from Harvard University. Her area of specialization is Spanish Literature of the Golden Age. She is the author of numerous articles and a book on Cervantes entitled Theatrical Aspects of the Novel: A Study of "Don Quixote". She is also interested in pedagogy and technology.
Currently, Jill Syverson-Stork is the coordinator of Intermediate Spanish at Wellesley College and author of a new web page on the Art of the Moche people of Peru. Her other responsibilities include being Faculty Advisor to Casa Cervantes, a member of the Davis Advisory Board and the Protestant Chaplaincy Advisory Board of Wellesley College.
Professor Syverson-Stork lives with her husband, Francisco--originally from Mexico-- and her two children - Nick and Anna, near Wellesley. her children have inspired Professor Syverson-Stork to dedicate herself to bilingual literature projects directed at infants and children. She has translated many book into Spanish for children and is the author, along with Nancy Abraham Hall, her colleague at Wellesley College, of Los pollitos dicen/The Baby Chicks Sing.
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