A Self-taught Scholar. Born in 1648, Juana Ramírez de Asbaje, later known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz after becoming a nun, was a child prodigy who taught herself to read and write.

It is almost impossible to read the Selected Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Spanish translator sin par Edith Grossman, without becoming fascinated by its author.. This 17th ...

About 1680,the great Mexican intellectual, poet, and nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) is thought to have written her most famous poem.

In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020.Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial ...

James Damore certainly is not the first to address sex-inequality in the sciences or tech, as this took place in the 17th century in Mexico, with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

With a pair of twinned chapbooks—Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, and Sor Juana and Other Monsters by Luis Felipe Fabre, translated by John ...

In comparison to the idea of having to obey a husband until death, to the woman who became Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, convent life came with perks ­— including a room of one’s own and the ...