Doris Sommer
Doris Sommer (born January 15, 1947) is a literature scholar who has developed Pre-Texts, 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.
In 1994, she was a
Guggenheim fellow in Latin America literature.
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