Opera UCLA premieres Carla Lucero’s “Juana,” based on the fascinating life of proto-feminist nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is a towering figure in the literary canon of the Spanish-speaking world. Born in the mid-17th century, in colonial-era Mexico, she was a woman far ahead of her time ...

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Mexican playwright Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's play "House of Desires" is being performed by Southwest Shakespeare April 11 to 14. Not only was de la Cruz the first female playwright in Mexico ...

According to press notes, "Legendary Mexican poet Juana Inés de la Cruz writes expressive, sensual verse at the Viceroy’s court in the 1600s, a time when it was unfashionable—and sinful—for ...

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 ...

Known as “The Tenth Muse” and “Mexican Phoenix,” the nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz challenged norms as a woman who was, in her time, and is still today, considered one of the finest poets ...

Sor Juana was so outside the gender roles of her time that she became the ultimate Baroque monster. Poet and proto-feminist Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) began life as a provincial child ...

She was a woman who’d be extraordinary in any century. A look at the new translation of the works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Executive Editor Who was the most erotic poet of the late ...

Juana Inés, who had been living as a lady-in-waiting at the colonial viceroy’s court for some years before this, took vows in 1669, when she was in her early twenties.