Dr. Timothy Turner
Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: 941-359-4209
Email: taturner@usf.edu
Office: C245A
Dr. Tim Turner is an associate professor of English on the Sarasota-Manatee campus at the University of South Florida. He specializes in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with essays and reviews published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Studies in English Literature and Culture 1500-1900, and the Sixteenth Century Journal, among others. His work has also appeared in edited collections published by Routledge and the Pennsylvania State University Press. Before coming to USF, he was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and a Presidential Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.
Research
“Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello.” Chapter 4 in Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance, ed. Margaret Simon and Nancy Simpson-Younger, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, pp. 89–108.
“Executing Calyphas: Gender, Discipline, and Sovereignty in 2 Tamburlaine.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, vol. 44, no. 2, 2018, pp. 141–156.
“‘Paint me in my gallery’: Time, Perspective, and the Painter Addition to The Spanish Tragedy.” Chapter 15 in Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Italian Influence, ed. Michele Marrapodi, Routledge, 2017, pp. 290–311.
“Othello on the Rack.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 102–136.
“Torture and Summary Justice in The Spanish Tragedy.” Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, vol. 53, no. 2, 2013, pp. 277–292.
“‘Torments will ope thy lips’: On Racking, Torture, and Torment in Shakespeare.” Discoveries, vol. 28, no. 1, 2011, pp. 16-25. https://sites.psu.edu/discoveries1/files/2018/10/Discoveries.28.1.2011.16-25.Tim-Turner-2ih7ixk.pdf
“Challenging Our Practices; Supporting Our Theories: Writing Mentors as Change Agents Across Discourse Communities.” Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing, vol. 5, 2008. Co-authored. http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/fellows/mullin.cfm