María Teresa Babín Cortés (May 30, 1910- December 19, 1989) was a Puerto Rican educator, literary critic, and essayist.

Among her best-known works is Panorama de la Cultura Puertorriqueña and several essays on Federico García Lorca.

She also experienced numerous moves, as her father was a chemist who worked at various of the sugar cane mills of Puerto Rico.

Upon completing her Masters, she was named Director of the Department of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, where she performed from 1940 to 1945.

[3] She returned to New York and worked as Special Consultant to the Ford Foundation, involved in their minority students scholarships program (1969–73).

She was invited by Lehman College of the City University of New York to implement a program on Puerto Rican Studies.

[3] The following books were written by Babin Cortes:[3] In the world of poetry, she produced:[3] She also produced numerous critical reviews of Miguel Meléndez Muñoz [es], Fernando Sierra Berdecía, Manuel Méndez Ballester, René Marqués, Emilio S. Belaval, Julia de Burgos, Luis Palés Matos, Evaristo Ribera Chevremont, among others.