Sommer D. History and Romanticism in Pedro Mir’s Cuando amaban las tierras comuneras. In: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Río Piedras, PR: Unversidad de Puerto Rico; 1979.

Sommer D. Pattern and Predictability in the Stories of Julio Cortázar. In: Minc R The Contemporary Latin American Short Story. New York: Senda de ediciones; 1979.

Sommer D. Good-bye to the Revolution and the Rest: Aspects of Post-1965 Dominican Narrative. Latin American Literary Review. 1981.

Sommer D. Populism as Rhetoric: The Dominican Republic. Boundary 2. 1982;XI.1-2.

Sommer D. Thomas Mann’s Gentle Prophetic Voice. In: Wojcik J, Frontain R-J Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press; 1984.

Sommer D. National Romance and Populist Rhetoric in Spanish America. In: Europe and its Others. Colchester: Essex University; 1985.

Sommer D. America as Desire(d): Nathaniel Tarn’s Poetry of the Outsider as Insider. In: American Poetry. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico; 1984.

Sommer D, Yúdice G. The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A General Introduction. In: McCaffery L Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Westfield, NY: Greenwood Press; 1986.

Sommer D. Galván’s Foundational Fiction and Populist Revisions by Bosch and Marrero Aristy. Revista Iberoamericana. 1988;142.

Sommer D. Plagiarized Authenticity: Sarmiento’s Cooper and Others. In: Firmat GP Do the Americas Have a Literature? Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 1990.

Sommer D. El género desconstruido: Cómo releer el canon a partir de La Vorágine. In: Ordóñez M Ensayos sobre La vorágine. Madrid: Alianza; 1988.

Sommer D. Sab c’est moi. Hispamérica. 1987;48.

Sommer D. When History Was Romance in Latin America. Salmagundi. 1989;82-83.

Sommer D. El mal de María: (Con)fusión en un romance nacional. MLN. 1989.

Sommer D. Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance. Boundary 2. 1991;18(1).