Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in 1651 in New Spain (now Mexico), in a city that now bears her name. Fluent from her youth in three languages, her poetic and literary accomplishments have made her a widely celebrated figure of the Spanish Golden Age. After entering a convent in 1667, she lived a cloistered life until her death in 1695, writing numerous literary, musical, dramatic, and philosophical works, perhaps the most famous of which is her Reply to Sister Filotea, which defends the right to education for women.

Reading Group

In order to bring Sor Juana's works to a wider audience and increase philosophical discussion of them, TEMPO will be hosting a reading group to work through some selections of her work.

We aim to nurture a community that is engaged with Sor Juana's works, both in the hopes that participants might find an interested and informed audience at this year's conference, and with the hope that they might submit papers/panels to future iterations of the conference.

The reading group will meet once per month on Zoom from January through April to discuss selections from the Norton Critical Edition, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (ISBN: 978-0393920161), available from Norton, Amazon, and other booksellers, both used and new.

To register for the reading group, use this form.

More information will be conveyed to participants in early January, when dates for particular meetings will be selected.

Facilitated by Domenica Romagni (Colorado State University), Julie Walsh (Wellesley College), and Virginia Sharpe (Rutgers).

Please get in touch with the coordinators with any questions.