Prof. Dr. phil.

Werner Sollors

Werner Sollors

Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences abroad since 2005

  • Harvard University

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Research Areas:

  • Linguistics and Literature
  • Contemporary history
  • American studies
  • Comparative literature studies
  • Film design
  • Photography

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Selected Memberships:

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Ateneo Veneto
  • Academia Europaea
  • Bayerische Amerika-Akademie

Selected Prizes:

  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
  • Dr. phil. h.c. Universität Regensburg
  • Dr. litterarum humaniorum h.c. West University of Timisoara
  • W.E.B. Du Bois medal for contributions to African American Studies
  • Sylvia Lyons Render Award

Selected Publications:

  • Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.. Italienische Übersetzung: Alchimie d’America. Identità etnica e cultura nazionale. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1990.
  • A New Literary History of America. (Mithg. Greil Marcus) Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Russische Übersetzung: Новая литературная история Америки. Москва: Издательство «Весь Мир», 2021.
  • The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Deutsche Übersetzung: Die Versuchung, zu verzweifeln. Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2017.
  • Schrift in bildender Kunst: Von ägyptischen Schreibern zu lesenden Madonnen. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2020.
  • The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism. Hg. Daniel G. Williams. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.