Janet L. Sorensen (Email; phone 812-855-6550)

Personal Home Page http://php.indiana.edu/~jsorense

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Theories of the Novel, Scottish Literature, Sociolinguistics, Studies in Nationalism and Colonial Discourse, Film and Media Studies

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2000).

“Rob Roy: The Other Eighteenth Century?” In The Eighteenth-Century on Film, Ed. Robert Mayer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2001).

”Belts of Gold and Twenty Pounders: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Textual Economies” Criticism. (2001).

“Dr. Johnson Eats his Words: Resisting the Incorporating Body of English Print Culture.” Language Sciences 22 (2000), pages 295-314.

“Peripheral Visions: Remaking the Map of British Cultural History.” Review essay. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40 (1999), pages 68-79.

“ ‘I Talk to Everyone in My Own Way’: Defoe’s Economies of Identity.” In The New Economic Criticism, Ed. Martha Woodmansee/Society for Critical Exchange. Routledge Press. (1999), pages 75-94.

“ ‘Strange Orthography and Singular Diction:’ Scott’s use of Scots in The Heart of Midlothian.” In English Literature and the Other Languages, Eds. Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and Atlanta. (1999), pages 63-74.

“Writing Historically, Speaking Nostalgically: The Competing Languages of Nation in Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.” In Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism. Eds. Jean Pickering and Suzanne Kehde. Macmillan and New York University Press. (1997), pages 31-50.

“Lef, Eisenstein, and the Politics of Form.” Film Criticism XIX (Winter, 1994/95), pages 55-74.

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
External Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University (1996-7)
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University (2000)
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University (2000)