Doris Sommer
{{Short description|Literature scholar}}
File:Doris Sommer 2017.jpg) interviewed in 2017]]
Doris Sommer (born January 15, 1947) is a literature scholar who has developed Pre-Texts,Pre-Texts.org 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 [https://www.culturalagents.org/ Cultural Agents Initiative] at Harvard. Sommer received her PhD from Rutgers University.{{cite web|title=Doris Sommer|url=http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/doris-sommer|website=aaas.fas.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=3 April 2017|language=en}}
In 1994, she was a Guggenheim fellow in Latin America literature.{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Doris Sommer|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/doris-sommer/|access-date=2020-12-23|language=en-US}}
Works
- One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels (University Press of America, 1984){{Cite journal|last=Kerr|first=Lucille|date=1987|title=Review of One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels|jstor=20119471|journal=Latin American Literary Review|volume=15|issue=30|pages=104–106}}
- 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){{Cite journal|last=Vogeley|first=Nancy|date=1994-02-01|title=Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America. Doris Sommer|journal=Modern Philology|volume=91|issue=3|pages=390–394|doi=10.1086/392183|issn=0026-8232}}{{Cite journal|last=Alyeea|first=Ty|date=Spring 2008|title=Ty Alyea on "Foundational Fictions"|url=http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/orgs/e3w/volume-8-spring-2008/2008-general-section/ty-alyea-on-foundational-fictions|journal=E3W Review of Books|volume=8|access-date=2017-08-25|archive-date=2017-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606210602/http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/orgs/e3w/volume-8-spring-2008/2008-general-section/ty-alyea-on-foundational-fictions|url-status=dead}}
- Yo-Yo Boing!: Either And with Alex Vega Merino (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998).{{Citation|last=Pérez|first=Rolando|editor-first1=Ilan |editor-last1=Stavans |title=The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures|date=2018-10-09|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190691202.013.31|work=The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies|pages=281–306|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190691202.013.31 |isbn=978-0-19-069120-2|access-date=2020-10-29}}
- ed. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (Duke University Press, 1999){{Cite journal|last=Chasteen|first=John Charles|date=2000-08-01|title=The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/12419|journal=Hispanic American Historical Review|volume=80|issue=3|pages=574–575|issn=1527-1900|doi=10.1215/00182168-80-3-574|s2cid=142823250 }}{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Tamara R.|date=Autumn 2002|title=he Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/f02136223f6704503b703ed3e7298adf/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=16188|journal=Hispanic Review|volume=70|issue=4|pages=658–660|via=ProQuest|doi=10.2307/3247114|jstor=3247114}}
- 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){{Cite journal|last=Ono|first=Kent A.|date=2002-03-01|title=Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (review)|journal=Rhetoric & Public Affairs|volume=5|issue=1|pages=210–212|doi=10.1353/rap.2002.0016|s2cid=154237818 |issn=1534-5238}}{{Cite journal|last=Reyes|first=Israel|date=2002|title=Review of Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas|jstor=3250628|journal=MELUS|volume=27|issue=4|pages=201–203|doi=10.2307/3250628}}{{Cite journal|last=Librada|first=Hernandez|date=2001-07-01|title=Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-74941418/proceed-with-caution-when-engaged-by-minority-writing|journal=Hispanic Review|language=en|volume=69|issue=3|issn=0018-2176}}
- ed. Bilingual Games (Palgrave, 2003)
- Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (Duke University Press, 2004){{Cite journal|last=Duran|first=Jane|date=2005-08-16|title=Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (review)|journal=The Journal of Aesthetic Education|volume=39|issue=3|pages=121–123|doi=10.1353/jae.2005.0029|s2cid=191478855 |issn=1543-7809}}
- ed. Cultural Agency in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2006){{Cite journal|last=Rodríguez|first=Ileana|date=2007-09-26|title=Cultural Agency in the Americas (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/221182|journal=The Americas|volume=64|issue=1|pages=90–91|doi=10.1353/tam.2007.0116|s2cid=143884351 |issn=1533-6247}}{{Cite journal|last=Rivera-Servera|first=Ramon H.|date=2008-03-11|title=Cultural Agency In the Americas (review)|journal=Theatre Journal|volume=60|issue=1|pages=158–160|doi=10.1353/tj.2008.0057|s2cid=192015055 |issn=1086-332X}}{{Cite journal|last=Hanway|first=Nancy|date=2009-10-01|title=Cultural Agency in the Americas - Edited by Sommer, Doris (ed.)|journal=Bulletin of Latin American Research|language=en|volume=28|issue=4|pages=592–593|doi=10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00320_23.x|issn=1470-9856}}
- [https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Work-of-Art-in-the-World/ The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities] (Duke University Press, 2014)