Convert a string to a class type/model in C#

Question

It seems that the default Jason Taylor's clean architecture .net template doesn't allow custom order or filtering.

Indeed, the default GetTodosQuery.cs only allow hardcoded order by. I need to give my users the ability to dynamically get a class type from a generic string and apply custom OrderBy, ie.

.OrderBy(t => type)  // instead of .OrderBy(t.Title)

So that the Handle method shown here would look like this:

public async Task<TodosVm> Handle(GetTodosQuery request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    var type = StringToType(request.classNameAsString);

    return new TodosVm
    {
        Lists = await _context.TodoLists
            .AsNoTracking()
            .ProjectTo<TodoListDto>(_mapper.ConfigurationProvider)
            .OrderBy(t => type)  // instead of t.Title)
            .ToListAsync(cancellationToken)
    };
}

When doing a query.

I tried several suggestions, but I couldn't come up with something satisfactory (at least performance-wise)