Werner Sollors

Professor Werner Max Sollors
Born	(1943-06-06) June 6, 1943 Kronberg, Germany
Nationality	American, German
Education	Wake Forest College (now University), attended 1964-65 Columbia University, attended 1969-70 Freie Universität Berlin, Ph.D., 1975 Harvard University, postdoctoral study 1977-78
Occupation	Author, Professor
Spouse(s)	Married
Children	David Sara
Parent(s)	Ferdinand Sollors, teacher Martha Sollors, homemaker
Awards	1981 Guggenheim fellow 1990 Constance Rourke Award for the best essay in American Quarterly 1997-98 Walter Channing Cabot fellow 1999-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities fellow 2003 Lifetime achievement award for outstanding scholarship and criticism of the field of U.S. ethnic literary studies, MELUS 2003 Sylvia Lyons Award for contribution to scholarship on the life and works of Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles W. Chesnutt Association 2006 Everett Mendelssohn Mentoring Award, Harvard University
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Werner Max Sollors (born June 6, 1943) is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also Global Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Background

Sollors received a doctorate in philosophy in 1975 from the Free University of Berlin.

Academic appointments

• Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, West Germany, assistant professor of American studies, 1970–77
• Columbia University, New York City, assistant professor, 1975–82, associate professor of English, 1982–83
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Andrew W. Mellon faculty fellow, 1977–78
  • professor of American literature and Language and Afro-American Studies, 1983--
  • Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, 1988--
  • Walter Channing Cabot fellow, 1997–98
• Washington University in St. Louis, Hurst Professor, 2004–05
• Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Patten Lecturer, 2008–09
• University of Texas at San Antonio, Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2009
• Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Work

His writings include Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986), Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997), Ethnic Modernism (2008), and The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s (2014). He was also the editor for the Modern Library Classics release of Georges by Alexandre Dumas.

• also 2007

External links

• Harvard faculty profile