Associate Professor
English
wsolomon@buffalo.edu

• PhD, English, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992

• Associate Professor of English, American Literature and Critical Theory, University at Buffalo

My mentor supplied me with an ethically admirable model for how to conduct myself professionally when relating to mentees. My goal would be to do the same for others: to show them the virtues of supporting the research of those who I am in position to guide. The specific quality I prize most highly in this regard is the ability to listen and respond to student aspirations rather than seek to determine these in accordance with my own convictions or biases.