Yvette Jimenez de Baez. Born February 19, 1934. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican researcher and academic. She studied Hispanic Language and Literatures at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. Her thesis, Amado Alonso and the Spanish of America, obtained Magna cum laude and the Quijote and Martí awards. In 1956 she entered the master's degree in Hispanic Literatures and graduated with the thesis Life and poetry of Julia Burgos. He completed his Doctorate in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the thesis La décima popular en Puerto Rico, with which he obtained an honorable mention, said work is known as one of the pioneering studies on the cultivation of the tenth improvised in these territories. She researcher and literary critic, she has published numerous studies, mainly on popular poetry. She is Director of the Popular Traditions Seminar of the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies of El Colegio de México, an institution to which she has belonged since 1966.