Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot professor emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught English, African American Studies, and Comparative Literature for more than three decades. He received his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin and held positions at Columbia University, Università degli Studi di Venezia and at New York University Abu Dhabi. His most recent books are The Temptation of Despair (Belknap), The Werner Sollors Reader(Edinburgh UP), and Liquid Street (Supernova).
Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of African American Studies, Emeritus