Welcome to the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project.
The Department of Spanish
and Portuguese
Dartmouth College
We are honored to present to you the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century. She was born November 12, 1651, in San Miguel Nepantla, a village south of Mexico City. She was a Poet Nun, a woman of genius, and a person of intellectual prowess whose ideas and accomplishments were ahead of her time.
