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Alexander Sorenson

Keywords: Literary Landscapes - Eco-Phenomenology - Theologies of Nature
Affiliation: Binghamton University
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Alexander Sorenson is Assistant Professor of German Studies and founding organizer of the Environmental Humanities Working Group at Binghamton University. His research and teaching interests center upon interdisciplinary themes related to the conception of nature in German literary, intellectual, and aesthetic tradition from the late 18th to the early 20th century. His first book, The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism (Cornell University Press, 2024), examines the relationship between water imagery, law, and sacrifice in Poetic Realism. He is currently at work on a second project, tentatively titled Ecologies of Transience, which explores the poetic, philosophical, and theological antecedents of modern environmental consciousness. Publications of his 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 1869 and Entitled Opinions podcasts.

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