Werner Sollors

Werner Max Sollors (born June 6, 1943 in Silesia ) is a German-American English student .

Life

Werner Sollors grew up near Frankfurt am Main and studied English at the Free University of Berlin . He was a research assistant there from 1970 and received his doctorate in 1975. He went to Columbia University in New York City as an assistant professor , and in 1982 he became an associate professor of English there. He was appointed to Harvard University , where he became Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and Professor of African American Studies in 1983 . Sollors held various visiting professorships.

Sollors was a Guggenheim Fellow and had a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities . He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2001 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones: the quest for a "populist modernism" . New York: Columbia University Press, 1978 ISBN 0231042264
• Beyond ethnicity: consent and descent in American culture . New York: Oxford University Press, 1986 ISBN 0195036948
• with Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood: Blacks at Harvard. A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. New York University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0-8147-7973-6
• Neither black nor white yet both: thematic explorations of interracial literature . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 ISBN 019505282X
• Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-512857-4
• Ethnic modernism . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780674030916
• (Co-editor): David Boder : I didn't question the dead . Heidelberg: Winter, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8253-5920-1
• The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s . Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-674-05243-7
  • The temptation to despair. Stories from the 1940s . Translation by Sabine Bayerl. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017 ISBN 9783825366506

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Sollors in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Werner Sollors in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Werner Sollors at perlentaucher.de
• Werner Sollors , at Harvard

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Ickstadt : One with the double look . Review, in: FAZ, April 24, 2018, p. 10