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
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. He is also Global Professor of Literature at
New York University Abu Dhabi
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Background
Sollors received a doctorate in philosophy in 1975 from the
Free University of Berlin
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Werner Sollors – History of American Civilization
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Academic appointments
*Freie Universität Berlin
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, Berlin, West Germany, assistant professor of American studies, 1970–77
*Columbia University
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, New York City, assistant professor, 1975–82, associate professor of English, 1982–83
*Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, 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
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, Hurst Professor, 2004–05
*Indiana University
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Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
*Indiana Universit ...
, Bloomington, IN, Patten Lecturer, 2008–09
*University of Texas at San Antonio
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, Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2009
*Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Ca' Foscari University of Venice ( it, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, simply Università Ca' Foscari) is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from w ...
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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
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
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References
External links
Harvard faculty profile
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Black studies scholars
Harvard University faculty
Free University of Berlin alumni
University of Texas at San Antonio faculty
Columbia University faculty
German emigrants to the United States
German scholars
West German expatriates in the United States
1943 births
Living people
People from Kronberg im Taunus
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Indiana University Bloomington faculty
Ca' Foscari University of Venice faculty