Werner Sollors#
| Membership Number: | 3405 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://scholar.harvard.edu/wsollors |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English, Harvard University
- 1983 - 2015 Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African American Studies, Harvard University
- 1976 - 1983 Assistant and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City
- Prior to 1976 Assistant and Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
- Visiting Professor during the past three decades:
- Oxford University (England)
- Munich and Berlin Universities (Germany)
- Bern (Switzerland)
- Università degli Studi di Venezia (Italy)
- La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)
- Nanjing Normal University (China)
- New York University Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the European 1940s
- American Literature and Culture
- African American Studies
- Literary History
- Visual Studies
- Ethnicity and Migration
- Text and Image
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Dr. phil. h.c. Universität Regensburg
- 2012 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2005 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Corresponding Member of the Bavarian American Academy
- 1999 - 2000 National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship
- 1997 - 1998 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University
- 1990 Constance Rourke Prize
- 1981 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
