Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D

I am a writer, field producer and professor of sociology and have lived and worked in South Asia, the United Kingdom and Central America, as well as some of the most rural parts of Canada, the United States and Mexico. My recently completed book about the modern cultural myth of Jack Kerouac, The Beauty Parts, was researched and written with support of the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University and was used as the basis for my new play about Kerouac, Reports of My Death Have Been Highly Exaggerated, created for and archived at the Reorb.it project.

I have been teaching my own original academic courses and programs since I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1990s and have traveled around the world as a faculty member for the University of Virginia's Semester At Sea Program; taught on the sociology, geography, law and gender studies faculties at the University of Wisconsin-Madison & the University of Denver; directed a London Study Abroad Program and taught urban studies at City College in London; developed a northeastern border studies and rural sociology curriculum at the State University of New York; helped develop and teach an interdisciplinary lecture series at Brown University; and developed a free, university-accredited adult and continuing education program for the Denver Public Library. My cross-country sociology and documentary making course, Jack Kerouac Wrote Here, Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool, has been featured on National Public Radio, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer and in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Denver Post, the Denver Westword and the Lowell Sun.

In addition to this academic work, I have also produced large public events for Rocky Mountain PBS, Masterpiece Theatre, the Nation magazine, the Denver Art Museum and the 2008 Democratic National Convention and often work as a commentator for public radio and television.

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