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The Janey Program in Latin American Studies at the New School for Social Research presents the Fall 2012 Lecture: Civic Culture in Latin America, by Professor Doris Sommer which will focus on the long
tradition of Civic Humanities and opportunities for engagement
today. Doris Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams, Jr.
Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, and Director of Graduate
Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. She also serves as Director of Cultural Agents, an
organization committed to promoting the arts and humanities as social resources
and fostering creativity and scholarship that contribute to the development of
communities worldwide. Her interests
include: 19th-century narrative in Latin American women's literature, ethnic
literature, and bilingual aesthetics.She is the author of Bilingual Aesthetics: A New
Sentimental Education (2004), Proceed with Caution, When
Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (1999), and Foundational Fictions: The
National Romances of Latin America. (1993). She is
the editor of Cultural Agency in the Americas (2005) and Bilingual Games: Some Literary
Investigations (2004). This event is also sponsored by the Department of Literary Studies at
Eugene Lang College and the Department of Liberal Studies at the New School for
Social Research.
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