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Katherine Turner is Professor of English and Director of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Mary Baldwin University. She teaches courses in British Literature, women's writing, and the English Major Seminar. Previously, she taught at the University of Oxford and worked with American Junior Year Abroad programs including Butler, NCSU, Sarah Lawrence, and Williams.
Her educational background includes:
- BA from University of Oxford (Balliol College)
- MPhil from University of Oxford
- PhD from University of Oxford
Dr. Turner specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature, with particular expertise in travel writing, women's writing, and eighteenth-century poetry. Her research explores how literary texts intersect with other cultural forms like visual arts and journalism to address public controversies such as poverty, women's education, marriage, divorce, and the slave trade. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges literary studies with cultural history and gender studies, revealing complex relationships between literature and social issues in historical contexts.
Her publication record shows a consistent scholarly trajectory focused on travel literature, women's writing, and intersections of gender, class, and national identity. Her most influential work, 'British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800,' examines how travel writing shaped Britain's emerging sense of national identity, finding that national identity formation was bound up with gendered behavior for both male and female writers. Her recent scholarship expands into Victorian reinterpretations of the eighteenth century and contemporary connections to authors like Daphne du Maurier.
Dr. Turner has edited Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey' for Broadview Press and contributed the essay 'Women Travel Writers, 1750-1830' to 'The History of British Women Writers.' She has presented on William Cowper at Jane Austen's Chawton House and is currently working on projects related to Africa, Daphne du Maurier, and eighteenth-century poets. Her extensive co-editorship of the 'Women's Court and Society Memoirs' series demonstrates her commitment to recovering women's historical narratives.
