Cosmopolitan Imagination: Cultural Reflections from the 21st Century

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? How do literature, culture, and identity shape our understanding of belonging and difference? These are the kinds of profound questions that Werner Sollors, one of our time’s most celebrated cultural critics, has spent a lifetime exploring. As Emeritus Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard and a Global Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, Sollors has charted new ways of thinking about cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, and race.

With the release of The Werner Sollors Reader from Edinburgh University Press, Sollers will be talking with Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History at NYUAD, about his work.