David R. Sorensen, DPhil

• BA, University of Toronto, 1976
• MPhil, London University, 1980
• DPhil, 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

• Editor, Carlyle Studies Annual.
• Co-Founder, Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium https://sc.edu/about/centers/digital_humanities/projects/vllc.php

Selected Publications

• Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle. Intro. David R Sorensen. Text and Notes ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2023
• The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. Mark Cumming, David R. Sorensen, Mark Engel, and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford Scholarly Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 
• The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2019. 
• The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Senior Eds. Ian Campbell and David R. Sorensen. Duke-Edinburgh Edition. 50 vols. Durham: Duke University Press, 1970-2023. 
• Heroes and Hero-Worship. Intro. David R. Sorensen. Texts and Notes ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
• The Carlyle Studies Annual. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Nos. 22-34. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2006-2023-ongoing).
• Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters. Ed. K. 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 (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 1989).

Forthcoming

• The Selected Essays of Thomas Carlyle. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2025).
• The British Reaction to the French Revolution, 1789-1914. Ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser (Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2026).

• Scholarly Editions Award: Carlyle Letters Project, National Endowment of the Humanities, 2021-24, for the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, vols. 48-50, and the Carlyle Letters Online (http://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/) 
• Modern Language Association Scholarly Editions Award, 2021:  The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle. Ed. Mark Cumming, David R. Sorensen, Mark Engel, and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford Scholarly Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.