Long before Frida there was Juana. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a nun in 17th century Mexico City, then capital of New Spain, was the first great poet in the Americas. She was also a determined ...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the first female playwright in Mexico Mexican playwright Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's play "House of Desires" is being performed by Southwest Shakespeare April 11 to 14.

At Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, 42% of students scored at or above the proficient level for reading. The school’s minority student enrollment is 94%. The student-teacher ratio is 15:1, which is ...

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 ...

The poetry and passions of the 17th-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz are given new life in “Juana Inés,” a Netflix original series now available in the United States.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, book review: Phallic jokes and metaphysics in a witty nun’s tale. This self-taught intellectual and poet was extraordinary enough for Octavio Paz to ...

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade around the Cloisters. Listen to this article · 6:07 min Learn more.