Renaissance Drama, esp. comedy; theater and print culture; early modern intellectual history, esp. literary theory and early scientific thought; history of sexuality and the family; medieval literary, social, and intellectual history; contemporary critical theory, esp. Marxism, Foucault, and Derrida.

B.A.                    Wesleyan University
Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes Françaises, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

M.A.                   University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Ph.D.                 Columbia University

Professor Turner is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006), and the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002). His work appears in The Norton Anthology of Drama (2007), The History of Cartography, Vol. III: Cartography in the European Renaissance (Chicago, 2007), Writing Robert Greene: New Essays on England’s First Professional Writer (Ashgate, 2007), as well as several prominent journals. He is series co-editor with Mary Thomas Crane of Scientific and Literary Cultures of Early Modernity (Ashgate), and book review editor of The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal.

He has recently completed Shakespeare’s Double Helix, a contribution to the “Shakespeare Now!” series published by Continuum Press (forthcoming 2008). Focusing on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this book explores the relationship between poetic and scientific discourses in early modern England, and how the play sheds light on 21st century accounts of human and artificial life in philosophy, biotechnology, and American political culture. Professor Turner’s next book-length project, The Corporate Commonwealth: Economy, Technology, and Community in Early Modern England, examines philosophies of industry, technology, and economy and their relationship to notions of political community and political subjectivity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English culture.