Werner Sollors

Werner Sollors received the Dr. phil. degree from the Freie Universität Berlin and taught there, as well as at Columbia University, at the Universitá degli Studi di Venezia, at New York University Abu Dhabi, and for more than three decades at Harvard University, where he is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English, Emeritus. He is Coeditor, together with Greil Marcus, of A New Literary History of America, which is also available in Russian translation. He has authored such books as Beyond Ethnicity, Neither Black nor White yet Both, Ethnic Modernism, The Temptation of Despair, Schrift in bildender Kunst, and Un bambino a Bergen-Belsen. Cosmopolitan Particularism, a collection of his essays, edited by Daniel G. Williams is soon to be published.

Current works:

“Goethe in Black America” (essay)

“Richard Wright’s Native Son and the African American Novel” (essay) Four 17th-century residents of Venice (short book)

Venezianische Bagatellen (essays)

With Alide Cagidemetrio, Face to Face with Antiquity (book about visitors to ancient sites)