# SPANISH 163 - Foundational Fiction and Film Semester: Spring | Year offered: 2026 Through novels that helped to consolidate nation-states in Latin America, explores modernity as personal and public lessons in laissez-faire. Sequels in film, telenovelas, performances show tenacity of genre. Links between creativity and citizenship. Theorists include Anderson, Foucault, Arendt, Lukacs, Flaubert. Course conducted in Spanish. --- ## Instructor [### Doris Sommer ](/people/doris-sommer) Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) and in African and African American Studies Director of Graduate Studies Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, also in Social Studies. She is founder of "Cultural Agents," an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving... ![Doris](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/sommer_1-3.jpg?itok=IGaBXPtI) See also:- [ 70-100 ](/class-categories/70-100) - [ Doris Sommer ](/instructor/doris-sommer) - [ Spanish ](/language/spanish) - [ Spring 2026 ](/class/term/spring-2026)