Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine G06
Phone: (610) 660-1881
Email: dsorense@sju.edu
Education
B.A., University of Toronto, 1976
M.Phil., London University, 1980
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1983
Courses Taught
Various Introductory Freshman English Courses.
Victorian Literature
Reason, Revolution and Reaction: Intellectual History, 1640-1840.
The Modern Mosaic: Intellectual History, 1840-1930.
Publications
The Carlyle Studies Annual. No. 22 (Phildelphia: SJU Press, 2006)
Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters. Ed. Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen (Ashgate, 2004).
The Carlyles at Home and Abroad. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Rodger L. Tarr (Ashgate, 2004).The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Ed. Ian Campbell, Aileen Christianson, Sheila McIntosh and David Sorensen. Duke - Edinburgh Edition. 33 vols. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1970 - 2006 - ).
Contributor and Editorial Advisor. The Carlyle Encyclopedia. Gen. Ed. Mark Cumming. (London: Associated University Presses, 2004).
The French Revolution: A History. By Thomas Carlyle. Intro. Mark Cumming and David R. Sorensen. Text Prepared by Mark Engel and David R. Sorensen. Strouse Essential Carlyle Edition. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, forthcoming).
"Jane Welsh Carlyle." By Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, ed. K.J. Fielding and David Sorensen, The World's Classics (London: Oxford, 1989)
General Fields of Professional Interest
Victorian Culture and Society
Enlightenment & Romanticism
English & French Historiography
Intellectual History
Revolutions & Revolutionaries
Art & Aesthetics
Pedagogical style
Lecture and discussion
Other information
Project Director, Carlyle Letters Project, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1999-2009 (three grants of $150,000 each for a digital edition of the Carlyle Letters Online and vols. 28-36)Editor, Carlyle Studies Annual.
Advisory Board, Strouse Carlyle Edition.