Hi. I'm Dr. Audrey Sprenger.
I am a sociology professor who prefers to read and write fiction.
I split my home between Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Sarasota.
I have written The Beauty Parts (2026), a novella and screenplay that contains all the elements of a Jack Kerouac novel. It is also the scaffolding for Like a Kerouac Novel (2027), a critique of David Riesman's classic sociological study on American conformity, The Lonely Crowd (1950), which I developed at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and the reorbit Digital Theatre project. See also my Medium essays on Judy Blume and Afterward to David Amram's Vibrations (1968).
Since 1994, I have taught courses on Jack and Riesman and a wide range of other courses in modernist American sociology, interdisciplinary social science, ethnographic research methods, rural economics, and modern Canadian and Indian culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Denver, Purchase College-SUNY, and the Universities of North and South Florida.
I have taught my series of interdisciplinary introductory sociology courses multiple times a semester in a dozen colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, including at sea, two maximum-security correctional institutions, and one small state college in a strawberry field, mostly at night.
I have also developed public programming for the Denver Public Library, The Nation magazine, and Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, done archival work for the New York Public Library, translated Telugu texts into English, and once spoke at the Aspen Institute.
The best way to contact me is through the college or university where you are taking a course with me. Everyone else, please use asprenger@ncf.edu.