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Janet Sorensen
Janet Sorensen
Title:
Professor
Specialties:
18th-Century British
Role:
Senate Faculty
Books
Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
Janet Sorensen
Monograph,
2017
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
Janet Sorensen
Monograph,
2000
Contact
jsorensen@berkeley.edu
334 Wheeler
Spring 2024 Office Hours
Thursday 1:30-3 and by appointment
Classes Taught
Current classes
Fall 2016-present
