Nina M. Scott is Professor of Spanish American Literature, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, and Graduate Program Director at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her specialty is women's literature, in particular the writings of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the famous Mexican poet, who was an outspoken feminist in the latter half of the 17th century. Prof. Scott has also lectured and published widely on Sor Juana's portraiture. She is co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings (University of Masssachusetts Press, 1989), and of Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). She has also translated and edited Sab and Autobiography by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (University of Texas Press, 1993).