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. By Elisabeth Vincentelli The Met Cloisters were alive with ...

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 ...

A collaboration between Paola Prestini, composer and director of National Sawdust, amongst other things, and Magos Herrera, Mexican jazz singer, songwriter and educator, Primero Sueño is a ...

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 Renaissance ...

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 scholar, ...

As a young woman in 17th-century Mexico, Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana had two choices: get married or join a convent. In comparison to the idea of having to obey a husband until death, ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Ballet Hispánico debuts two works: one about the 17th-century nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the other, “Papagayos,” featuring a ...

Actress and writer Angeles Romero wants you to meet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. She's convinced once you know Sister Juana, you'll admire this extraordinary individual as much as she does. That's the ...

Who is Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz? Unless you’ve studied the history of Mexico or feminism, you probably haven’t heard of this fascinating woman of the 1600s, a self-taught scholar who was astounding ...