Dr Marion Turner
Academic Background
I read English at Oxford and then spent a year abroad before reading for an MA in Medieval Studies at York. I returned to Oxford to study for a doctorate, focusing on Chaucer, which I gained in 2002. I was a Fellow by Examination (Prize Fellow) at Magdalen College, Oxford, and also taught at King's College London before returning to Oxford in 2007 to take up a fellowship at Jesus. In 2006, I was awarded a research fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust and in 2011 I was awarded research funding from the Wellcome Trust.
Undergraduate Teaching
Old English, Middle English (1100-1509), Chaucer, Course II.
Postgraduate Teaching
I am interested in supervising doctorates on topics including Chaucer, Usk, the Gawain-poet, literature and medicine, and fourteenth-century secular and political literature. Interdisciplinary and theoretically-oriented projects are welcome.
Research Interests
My research interests lie in late medieval secular literature and history, especially Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and political texts. My first book - Chaucerian Conflict - came out with Oxford University Press in 2007. I am currently editing a major collection for Blackwell’s about medieval literature and critical theory and I have published many articles on late medieval literature and history. I am also interested in literature and medicine, and in the relationship between space and textual production. Current projects include an essay on sovereignty and Gawain, another on late-medieval narratives about illness, and a longer project about locations of literary production in the late fourteenth century.
Selected Publications
Books
Critical Theory Handbooks: A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Blackwells, forthcoming 2012) [as editor]
Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London (OUP, 2007)
Journal Articles
‘Thomas Usk and John Arderne’, Chaucer Review 47 (forthcoming, 2012)
‘Usk and the Goldsmiths’, New Medieval Literatures 9 (2008): 139-77
‘Troilus and Criseyde and the Treasonous Aldermen of 1382: Tales of the City in Late Fourteenth Century London’, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 225-57
‘“Certaynly his noble sayenges can I not amende”: Thomas Usk and Troilus and Criseyde’, Chaucer Review 37:1 (2002): 26-39
Articles in Edited Books
‘Writing Revolution,’ in The Blackwell Companion to British Literature, vol 1. 700-1450, ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher (Blackwell, forthcoming 2012)
‘Imagining Polities: Social Possibilities and Conflict,’ in Middle English Literature: Criticism and Debate, ed. D. Vance Smith and Holly Crocker (Routledge, forthcoming 2012)
‘Conflict,’ in Twenty-first Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (OUP, 2007), pp. 258-73
‘Greater London’ in Chaucer and the City, ed. Ardis Butterfield (Boydell and Brewer, 2006), pp. 25-40
‘Politics and London Life,’ in A Concise Companion to Chaucer, ed. Corinne Saunders (Blackwell, 2005), pp. 13-33
‘The Carnivalesque’ in Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, ed. Steve Ellis (OUP, 2004), pp. 384-99
Other Information
I enjoy speaking to diverse audiences, and have appeared on several television and radio programmes on the BBC and Channel 4, talking about Chaucer and other aspects of late-medieval culture. I have also given public lectures at museums and galleries, and have run workshops at sixth-form colleges.
Please note that I am on maternity leave for the academic year 2011-2012; I will still be checking email but my responses may be delayed.
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
Classics and English
English
English and Modern Languages
History and English
See also Faculty of English website.
