Doris Sommer
Doris Sommer is a literature scholar who has developed Pre-Texts, a world-wide program that promotes critical thinking skills and mental wellness through making art based on challenging texts. She is Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also Director of the at Harvard. Sommer received her PhD from Rutgers University.
In 1994, she was a Guggenheim fellow in Latin America literature.
Works
One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels- ed. with Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, and Patricia Yaeger, Nationalisms & Sexualities Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America ; in Spanish: Ficciones fundacionales: La novela nacional en América Latina Yo-Yo Boing!: Either And with Alex Vega Merino.
- ed. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America Proceed with Caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas ; in Spanish: Abrazos y rechazos: Cómo leer en clave menor
- ed. Bilingual Games Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education
- ed. Cultural Agency in the Americas
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