Doris Sommer

Doris Sommer Ph.D (Rutgers) interviewed in 2017

Doris Sommer (born January 15, 1947) is a literature scholar who has developed Pre-Texts,^[1] a world-wide program that promotes critical thinking skills and mental wellness through making art (visual, performance, literary, etc.) 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 Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard. Sommer received her PhD from Rutgers University.^[2]

In 1994, she was a Guggenheim fellow in Latin America literature.^[3]

Works

• One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels (University Press of America, 1984)^[4]
• ed. with Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, and Patricia Yaeger, Nationalisms & Sexualities (Routledge, 1991)
• Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (University of California Press, 1991); in Spanish: Ficciones fundacionales: La novela nacional en América Latina (FCE, 2005)^[5][6]
• Yo-Yo Boing!: Either And with Alex Vega Merino (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998).^[7]
• ed. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (Duke University Press, 1999)^[8][9]
• Proceed with Caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 1999); in Spanish: Abrazos y rechazos: Cómo leer en clave menor (FCE, 2006)^[10][11][12]
• ed. Bilingual Games (Palgrave, 2003)
• Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (Duke University Press, 2004)^[13]
• ed. Cultural Agency in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2006)^[14][15][16]
• The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities (Duke University Press, 2014)

References

1. Pre-Texts.org
2. "Doris Sommer". aaas.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Doris Sommer". Retrieved 2020-12-23.
4. Kerr, Lucille (1987). "Review of One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels". Latin American Literary Review. 15 (30): 104–106. JSTOR 20119471.
5. Vogeley, Nancy (1994-02-01). "Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America. Doris Sommer". Modern Philology. 91 (3): 390–394. doi:10.1086/392183. ISSN 0026-8232.
6. Alyeea, Ty (Spring 2008). "Ty Alyea on "Foundational Fictions"". E3W Review of Books. 8. Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
7. Pérez, Rolando (2018-10-09), Stavans, Ilan (ed.), "The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures", The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies, Oxford University Press, pp. 281–306, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190691202.013.31, ISBN 978-0-19-069120-2, retrieved 2020-10-29
8. Chasteen, John Charles (2000-08-01). "The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (review)". Hispanic American Historical Review. 80 (3): 574–575. doi:10.1215/00182168-80-3-574. ISSN 1527-1900. S2CID 142823250.
9. Williams, Tamara R. (Autumn 2002). "he Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America". Hispanic Review. 70 (4): 658–660. doi:10.2307/3247114. JSTOR 3247114 – via ProQuest.
10. Ono, Kent A. (2002-03-01). "Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (review)". Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 5 (1): 210–212. doi:10.1353/rap.2002.0016. ISSN 1534-5238. S2CID 154237818.
11. Reyes, Israel (2002). "Review of Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas". MELUS. 27 (4): 201–203. doi:10.2307/3250628. JSTOR 3250628.
12. Librada, Hernandez (2001-07-01). "Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas". Hispanic Review. 69 (3). ISSN 0018-2176.
13. Duran, Jane (2005-08-16). "Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (review)". The Journal of Aesthetic Education. 39 (3): 121–123. doi:10.1353/jae.2005.0029. ISSN 1543-7809. S2CID 191478855.
14. Rodríguez, Ileana (2007-09-26). "Cultural Agency in the Americas (review)". The Americas. 64 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1353/tam.2007.0116. ISSN 1533-6247. S2CID 143884351.
15. Rivera-Servera, Ramon H. (2008-03-11). "Cultural Agency In the Americas (review)". Theatre Journal. 60 (1): 158–160. doi:10.1353/tj.2008.0057. ISSN 1086-332X. S2CID 192015055.
16. Hanway, Nancy (2009-10-01). "Cultural Agency in the Americas - Edited by Sommer, Doris (ed.)". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 28 (4): 592–593. doi:10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00320_23.x. ISSN 1470-9856.