Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer; Assistant Professor of German
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
Background
Alexander Sorenson is an assistant professor of German Studies at 91制片厂Pro University. His research and teaching interests center on interdisciplinary themes and issues related to the environmental humanities.
His first book, (Cornell University Press, 2024), examines the relationship between water imagery, law, and sacrifice in Poetic Realism. He is also in the early stages of a second research project, tentatively titled Ecologies of Transience, which explores the poetic roots of environmental consciousness in the long 19th century.
His publications have appeared in The German Quarterly, Literature & Theology, Forum for Modern Language Studies, German Life & Letters and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has also been a guest on the and podcasts.
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
- MA, University of Chicago
- BA (summa cum laude), Portland State University
Research Interests
- German literature, culture and thought ca. 1780-1917
- Modern European intellectual history
- Philosophical, theological and cultural accounts of nature
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
Teaching Interests
- German language and literature
- European and comparative literature, culture, thought (Enlightenment鈥擡xpressionism)
- Environmental Humanities