Amanda Powell, poet and translator, teaches Latin American and Spanish literature and literary translation at the University of Oregon. Powell has published essays on research 16th and 17th century writing.
Read MoreSor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), a seventeenth-century Mexican nun, was a brilliant poet, playwright, and essayist whose persistently defended of the intellectual rights of women.
Read MoreElecta Arenal, professor emeritus of Hispanic and Women's Studies (City University of New York), is a translator and specialist in Hispanic monastic women's culture. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Center for the Study of Women and Society and coordinated the Women's Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center/CUNY.
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