Werner Sollors
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- Ferdinand Sollors, teacher
- Martha Sollors, homemaker
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| Born | June 6, 1943 |
| Education | Columbia University Free University of Berlin |
| Children | 2 |
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Werner Max Sollors (born June 6, 1943) is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also Global Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.[3]
Sollors received a doctorate in philosophy in 1975 from the Free University of Berlin.[4]
Academic appointments
- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, West Germany, assistant professor of American studies, 1970–77
- Columbia University, New York City, assistant professor, 1975–82, associate professor of English, 1982–83
- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Andrew W. Mellon faculty fellow, 1977–78
- professor of American literature and Language and Afro-American Studies, 1983--
- Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, 1988--
- Walter Channing Cabot fellow, 1997–98
- Washington University in St. Louis, Hurst Professor, 2004–05
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Patten Lecturer, 2008–09
- University of Texas at San Antonio, Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2009
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice[1]