Carolyn Sorisio
Professor
Main Hall 516
CSorisio@wcupa.edu
610-436-2892
Education
- Ph.D., Temple University
Interests
- 19th-Century U.S. Literature
- reform (social justice writers)
- life writing
- Romanticism
- critical regionalisms
- multi-ethnic literature
- African American literature
- Native American literature
- print cultural studies
- feminist studies
- postcolonial studies
- transnational studies
Selected Publications
Professor Sorisio specializes in nineteenth-century US literature. Her publications include The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights [coedited with Cari M. Carpenter (Univ. of Nebraska P, 2015), which was awarded the 2015 Susan Koppleman Award from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association] and Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 (Georgia UP, 2002). She is the former editor of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, and she has guest edited special issues of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance ("Native Americans: Writing and Written" (2006)) and MELUS ("Cross-Racial and Cross-ethnic Collaboration and Scholarship: Contexts, Criticism, and Challenges" (2013)) and has published essays in the African American Review, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and Modern Language Studies. Her recent work focuses on Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and includes essays in Studies in American Indian Literatures, MELUS, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.