#  Werner Sollors 

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English Literature, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 email <sollors@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

**Education:** D. Phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin  
**Interests:** American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.  
**Selected Works:** The Temptation of Despair (2014); A New Literary History of America (co-ed.with Greil Marcus, 2009); Ethnic Modernism (2008); Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997); Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986)

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)