Education
PhD, & MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology
BA University of Wisconsin-Madison History, Telugu, Integrated Liberal Studies
Audrey Sprenger splits her home between Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Sarasota and will teach as a Visiting Professor at New College until May 2026. She has 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 was developed at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and the reorbit Digital Theatre project. She also wrote the Afterword to David Amram’s Vibrations (1968). Since 1994, Audrey has taught courses on Jack and Riesman and a wide range of other classes 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. Audrey has also taught her 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. In addition to teaching work in academia, Audrey also developed public programming for the Denver Public Library, The Nation magazine, and Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, did archival work for the New York Public Library, translated Telugu texts into English, and once spoke at the Aspen Institute.