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);
• Ethnic Modernism (2008);
• 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);
• ed. An Anthology of Interracial Literature (2003);
• ed. Georges (Alexandre Dumas);
• co-ed. A New Literary History of America (2009).

He is currently at work on a book tentatively called Tales of the 1940s.

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
- Department of English