Education

• Ph.D., Temple University

Interests

• 19th-Century U.S. Literature with an Emphasis on Race and Gender

Selected Publications

Professor Sorisio specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. 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)) and Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 (Georgia UP, 2002). 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: "Playing the Indian Princess?: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Newspaper Career and the Performance of American Indian Identities"(Studies in American Indian Literatures (spring 2011)); "Translation, Resistance & US Imperialism/Colonialism: The Case of Sarah Winnemucca" (MELUS (2012)); and "'I nailed those lies': Sarah Winnemucca, Print Culture and Collaboration" (J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, forthcoming).