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Eric G. Lorentzen
Assistant Professor of English
English, Linguistics and Communication

elorentz@umw.edu
(540) 654-2124

M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Rowan University

Expertise
Literacy Studies
British Novel, The
Short Story, The
Brontes, The
British Romantic Literature
Cultural Studies
Dickens
Literary Theory
Thomas Hardy
Wordsworth
Victorian Literature and Culture

Eric G. Lorentzen, Assistant Professor of English, received a Ph.D. (2003) in 19th-century British literature and an M.A. (1998) in English, both from Pennsylvania State University. He also received two B.A. degrees (1992, 1988), one in English and one in communications with a concentration in media/film from Rowan University. Dr. Lorentzen has published articles in journals such as Dickens Studies Annual, The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Victorian Newsletter, and The Virginia Woolf Miscellany.  He also has presented scholarly papers at more than a dozen national and international conferences. While at Pennsylvania State, he became the first member of his department to win both the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award and the University Outstanding Teaching Award. His current research explores the rise of mass literacy in 19th-century England and the ways in which pedagogical institutions often marginalized, rather than empowered, at-risk readers such as women, the working classes, and colonial subjects.