Performance about Sor Juana
Event Date:
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 4:00pm
Event Location:
Center for Performance Studies - 1330 Macgowan Hall
The Center for Performance Studies will present “The Sor Juana Revue” on Wednesday, November 10, 4:00 p.m., in 1330 Macgowan Hall. Jesusa Rodríguez will perform sections of the poem "First Dream" by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the first woman playwright and poet in the New World. A lecture by Diana Taylor and a reading by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor of Chicana/o studies, will follow the performance. The event, which is open to the public, is being co-sponsored by the CSRC, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Mexican Studies Center, and the Department of Theater.