Biography:

Henry S. Turner is Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University, where he has taught since September 2007. Before arriving at Rutgers, Turner taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his BA from Wesleyan University, an MA in Renaissance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University, and a Diplôme Supérieur d'Études Françaises from the Université de Bourgogne. From 1993-94 he taught in the Département d'Anglais at the Université de Nice...read more »

Teaching:

Turner has taught undergraduate courses on English literature from Chaucer to Aphra Behn; on Dekker, Middleton, Jonson and theories of everyday life; on theories of space and representations of early modern London; on Shakespeare; and on French linguistic structuralism and its legacy. He has taught graduate seminars on Ben Jonson; on topographesis in early modern literature from More to Shirley; on philosophies of "life"; and on imagining "science" in early modern England. At UW-Madison he received the English Department's Graduate Teaching Award...read more »

Research Areas:

Turner's primary research area is in Renaissance Drama, especially comedy, and twentieth-century critical theory, especially Marxism, Foucault, Derrida, structuralism, and psychoanalysis...read more »

Selected Publications:

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and the Practical Spatial Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

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