Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University
Address:
Romance Languages & Literatures
Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard
Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.5273
Fax: 617.496.4682
Email:
dsommer@fas.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
Spanish 243: Foundational Fiction and Film
Spanish 272: Aesthetics from the Margins
Biography
Professor Sommer's research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more general pursuit of the constructive work in rights and resources that the arts and the humanities contribute to developing societies. Professor Sommer has enjoyed and is dedicated to developing good public school education; she has a B.A. from New Jersey's Douglass College for Women, and her Ph.D. is from Rutgers The State University.
Recent Publications
Cultural Agency in the Americas edited by Doris Sommer (Duke University Press, 2006).
Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (Duke University Press, 2004)
Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations , edited by Doris Sommer, (Palgrave, 2004)
Proceed with Caution When Engaging Minority Literature (Harvard UP, 1999)
Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (University of California Press, 1991)
Curriculum Vitae
Doris Sommer [PDF]