Werner Sollors


Werner Max Sollors 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

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