Join us for the launch of the newly released paperback edition of ‘The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism’ (Edinburgh University Press). Bringing together essays spanning more than four decades, the volume showcases the work of Werner Sollors, one of the most influential scholars of American literature, ethnicity, migration, and transnational culture.

Werner Sollors will be joined by the volume’s editor, Daniel G. Williams, in conversation with Rachel Farebrother. Together they will discuss the ideas that have shaped Sollors’s scholarship, the continuing significance of debates about ethnicity and belonging, and the enduring value of comparative and transnational approaches to literature and culture.

Limited copies of the book will be available (cash only) at a reduced price of £25 (RRP: 34.99)

Supported by:
Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales
FHSS Environment Fund

*Please note: Event delivered in English

Werner Sollors
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard University. An internationally renowned scholar of American literature and culture, his work has transformed the study of ethnicity, migration, race, and transnationalism. His influential books include ‘Beyond Ethnicity’, ‘Neither Black Nor White Yet Both’, and ‘The Temptation of Despair’. For more than four decades, Sollors has helped shape debates about identity, belonging, and cultural exchange across national boundaries. The Werner Sollors Reader brings together a representative selection of his most important essays.

Daniel G. Williams
Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English Literature at Swansea University and Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales. His research explores questions of nationhood, ethnicity, cultural identity, and transatlantic exchange. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including ‘Black Skin, Blue Books’, ‘Wales Unchained’, and ‘The Werner Sollors Reader’. From August he will be a Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Rachel Farebrother
Rachel Farebrother is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Swansea University and a leading scholar of twentieth-century American literature and culture. Her research focuses on African American writing, modernism, race, migration, and transnational literary networks. She is the author of ‘The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance’ and editor (with Miriam Thaggert) ‘A History of the Harlem Renaissance’.