Rob Turner

Dr. Rob Turner is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st-Century Literature at the University of Exeter's Department of English and Creative Writing. He previously served as a Teaching Fellow in American Literature at University College London (2015-2017). Turner holds a BA and MA in Issues in Modern Culture from UCL and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Robert Macfarlane.

His research explores:

• American epic traditions and contemporary long poems
• Hip-hop as literary form and its connections to global oral traditions
• Politics of metafiction and counterfactual narratives
• Concepts of authenticity in postmodern prose
• Intersections of literature with music, technology, and African American experimental writing

Publications include the monograph Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic Since 1960 (Cambridge UP, 2019) examining authors like Pynchon and Warhol, and contributions to the collaborative epic Tales of Dionysus (2022). His forthcoming edited collection Hip-Hop in American Literature and Culture analyzes rap poetics through scholarly perspectives.

Turner welcomes supervision in:

• American epic poetry
• Literature of inauthenticity/counterfactualism
• Hip-hop studies and sound-text relationships
• Technology's impact on literary form

He is a regular contributor to The Wire magazine.