FACULTY

Assistant Professor. B.A., English, University of California at Berkeley; M.A., English, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., English Literature, with distinction, New York University.

Professor Sorensen specializes in multi-ethnic American literature, with a primary focus on the 20th century. Before coming to Colorado State University, he taught at Middlebury College, Idaho State University, and the University of Georgia. He teaches a broad range of multi-ethnic American literature and transnational writing. He has published articles on Zora Neale Hurston, Younghill Kang, and Americo Paredes in MELUS, Genre, and American Literature. Essays on Kathy Acker and H.P. Lovecraft are forthcoming in a book on Kathy Acker and transnationalism and Modernism/Modernity. He is working on a book, Alternative Modernisms: Genealogies of Critical Multiculturalism, which focuses on multicultural writing from the 1930s. Other research projects include an interest in writing as a technology of identity in the latter half of the 20th century and interconnections between literary experimentation and ethnographic poetics.

Phone:970 491 3486
Email Address: Leif.Sorensen@ColoState.EDU