Symposium: “Otro Corazón 3 – Queering Sor Juana”

Please join us for a celebration of Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s 2026 retirement and lifelong research on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana”  builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series, and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17^th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.”

Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies

Cosponsored by The Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies, the Chicano Studies Research Center, and the Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center

Free and open to the public, but all attendees, including participants and audience members, must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for registered guests only.

For more information, visit https://aliciagaspardealba.com/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana/

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana-tickets-1980672752521