Werner Sollors

Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies. Dr. phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin.

Interests: American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.

Selected Works:

• Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986);
• Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997);
• ed. The Promised Land (Mary Antin);
• ed. Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader (1996);
• ed. Multilingual America (1998);
• ed. Interracialism (2000);
• ed. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (2000);
• co-ed. The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (2000) and
• An Anthology of Interracial Literature (2003).

He is currently at work with Greil Marcus on a New Literary History of America.

His lectures "Americans All?" and "Goodbye Germany" have been posted on the web, as have his contributions to the Interroads discussion on multilingualism.

Contact information:
- Department of African and African American Studies
- English and American Literature and Languages