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David R. Sorensen, D.Phil

Professor, Associate Director Honors

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Merion Hall 187

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610-660-1881
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    • B.A., University of Toronto, 1976
    • M.Phil., London University, 1980
    • D.Phil., Oxford University, 1983

  • 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

  • Selected Publications

    • The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford World's Classics Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
    • The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Ed. Ian Campbell, Aileen Christianson, and David Sorensen. Duke - Edinburgh Edition. 46 vols. (Durham: Duke UP, 1970 - 2017 ongoing ).
    • "Ruskin and Carlyle." The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin. Ed. Francis O'Gorman. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015: 189-201.
    • Heroes and Hero-Worship. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent Kinser. (New Haven: Yale UP, 2013).
    • The Carlyle Studies Annual. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Nos. 22-32 (Philadelphia: SJU P, 2006 -2019 ongoing)
    • Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters. Ed. Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
    • The Carlyles at Home and Abroad. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Rodger L. Tarr (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
    • The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. K. J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen. World's Classics Edition. London: Oxford UP, 1989.

    Forthcoming

    • The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. Mark Cumming, David R. Sorensen, and Mark Engel. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publication Date Spring 2020.
    • Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford World's Classics Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

    Grants and Awards

    • Tengelmann Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research, Saint Joseph’s University, 2009.
    • Scholarly Editions Award: Carlyle Letters Project, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1999-2021, for the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle vols. 28-46 and the Carlyle Letters Online http://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/