Today we're going to be talking about a 17th century nun,

poet and playwright who is celebrated in Mexico.

She's been called the 10th Muse, the Mexican Phoenix, the daughter of a

polo and the voice of the new world, but she's relatively unknown by many

outside her home country.

Her name was Sohuana Innis de la Cruz, and my guest today says that it is

no exaggeration to call her a Mexican superstar.

My guest is Amy Fuller Morgan, who is a lecturer in the history of the

Americas at Nottingham Trent University.

She's the author of Between Two Worlds, the auto sacramentalus of Sohuana

Innis de la Cruz from 2015.

And this summer she's organizing a big event called Challenging Narratives of

European Conquest and Commemoration, the fall of Tetenochtesitland 500 years

on, which is an online conference to mark the anniversary of the conquest of

Mexico. It's on the 12th and 13th of August.

It's got some brilliant keynote speakers.

Emcee Hammer has expressed his interest and you can find it on event

right. But today we're talking about none and poet Sohuana.

Amy, thank you so much for joining me today.

Now Sohuana Innis de la Cruz is famous in Mexico, isn't she?

How she commemorated there?

She's celebrated almost like an icon really.

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