Henry S. Turner

Winter 2012

January 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM · Filed under Uncategorized

Happy New Year: welcome to 2012.

Check the Rutgers English Department home page for announcements about upcoming events, including a major conference on “The Public University in the 21st Century,” sponsored by the “Public Knowledge” seminar that Meredith McGill and I are leading at the CCA. The conference will be on Friday, February 24 and will feature talks by Craig Calhoun (Sociology, NYU), Marybeth Gasman (Education, University of Pennsylvania), Carla Hesse (History, UC Berkeley), Michael Kennedy (Sociology, Brown), Chris Newfield (English, UCSB), and Peter Osborne (Philosophy, Kingston University).

Sheila Jasanoff (Kennedy School, Harvard University) will be speaking on Tuesday, February 7th as part of her visit to the seminar.

Peter Dear and Barbara Herrnstein Smith will give plenary talks at the interdisciplinary graduate student conference on science, literature, and method sponsored by the Natura working group on March 2nd.

And watch this space for more information about a symposium on the “Global Public Sphere” to be sponsored by the CCA on March 30th and organized by Jennifer Bajorek and Sam Lebovic.

As always, the biweekly CCA seminar meetings and guest presentations are open to the public. Visit the CCA website for announcements about events.

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The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and the Practical Spatial Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) is now in paperback. Read a description of the book with excerpts from reviews.

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My primary research and teaching areas are in Renaissance Drama, especially comedy; critical theory; and relations between the fields of literature and science. Other areas of research and teaching include early modern intellectual history, especially literary theory and early scientific thought; economic and industrial history; urban history; the history of the theater; print culture; and related areas in medieval literary, social, and intellectual life.

I am currently at work on several projects: The Corporate Commonwealth, a book-length study of the concept of the "corporation," including early modern philosophies of industry, technology, and economy and their relationship to notions of political community and political subjectivity; two essays on Richard Hakluyt as a translator and humanist and on the "corporation" in 16th century humanism and economic thought; and a large collection of essays on early modern theatricality (Oxford, 2013).

At Rutgers, I am Director of the Program in Early Modern Studies and a member of the Executive Committee at the Center for Cultural Analysis. I am also a member of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Colloquium, an English Department faculty-graduate student research group that sponsors talks and workshops.

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