Werner Sollors
Professor Werner Max Sollors | |
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Born | Kronberg, Germany | June 6, 1943
Nationality | American, German |
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Occupation(s) | Author, Professor |
Spouse | Married |
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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.[3]
Background
Sollors received a doctorate in philosophy in 1975 from the Free University of Berlin.[4]
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[1]
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.
- Sollors, Werner (2005). "Goodbye, Germany" (PDF). TRANSIT a Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World. 1 (1). Retrieved 2014-01-15.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (2004). An anthology of interracial literature : Black-white contacts in the Old World and the New. LCCN 2003056105.
- Sollors, Werner; Diedrich, Maria, eds. (1994). The Black Columbiad : defining moments in African American literature and culture. LCCN 94019727.
- Sollors, Werner; Titcomb, Caldwell; Underwood, Thomas A., eds. (1993). Blacks at Harvard : a documentary history of African-American experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. with an introduction by LCCN 92027074.
- LCCN 2002024048.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (2000). Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law. LCCN 99032521.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (1989). The Invention of ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press. LCCN 88005963.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (1998). Multilingual America : transnationalism, ethnicity, and the languages of American literature. New York: New York University Press. LCCN 98006851.
- LCCN 00030535.
- LCCN 2009014255.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (1993). The Return of thematic criticism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. LCCN 92020083.
- Sollors, Werner, ed. (1996). Theories of ethnicity : a classical reader. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press. LCCN 96012967.
- Sollors, Werner; Underwood, Thomas A.; Titcomb, Caldwell, eds. (1986). Varieties of black experience at Harvard : an anthology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, Dept. of Afro-American Studies. LCCN 87672129.
- LCCN 2012011363.
- LCCN 2011050007.
- LCCN 2008276132. also 2007
- LCCN 00058386
- John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Bibliothek (1972), A bibliographic guide to Afro-American studies (based on the holdings of the John F. Kennedy-Institut library), compiled and edited by Werner Sollors (with introductory essays by Ernest Kaiser and the compiler), LCCN 74158531
- John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Bibliothek, A bibliographic guide to Afro-American studies: supplement one (based on recent acquisitions of the John F. Kennedy-Institute Library), compiled and edited by Werner Sollors (with contributions by Volkhard Brandes ... et al.), Berlin: John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, LCCN 76383829
- Sollors, Werner (1978), Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones : the quest for a "populist modernism", New York: LCCN 78007499
- Sollors, Werner (1986), Beyond ethnicity : consent and descent in American culture, New York: Oxford University Press, LCCN 85015249
- Sollors, Werner (2008), Ethnic modernism (1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, LCCN 2008007143
- Sollors, Werner (1997), Neither black nor white yet both : thematic explorations of interracial literature, New York: Oxford University Press, LCCN 96007162
- Sollors, Werner (2014), The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, LCCN 2013037693
- LCCN 2005279834
References
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"Werner Sollors". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. January 19, 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-12 – via Fairfax County Public Library. Biography in Context. (subscription required)
- ^ "Werner Sollors" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Directory of American Scholars. Gale. 2002. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1612545536. Retrieved 2014-01-12. Biography in Context. (subscription required)
- ^ NYU Abu Dhabi Faculty
- ^ Werner Sollors – History of American Civilization