Henry S. Turner

Ongoing and Upcoming

Along with Mary Thomas Crane, I edit a book series at Ashgate Press entitled Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. We are always looking for suitable projects; authors of academic monographs, edited collections of essays, or editions of primary texts that might fit the series should feel free to email a proposal and letter of introduction.

Congratulations to Kevin Killeen, whose Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2009; LSCEM Series) just won the 2010 Council for College and University English Book Prize, awarded annually for the best scholarly book in the field of English studies by an early-career academic.

And congratulations to Leah Knight, whose Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2009; LSCEM Series) won the 2009 Book Prize from the British Society for Literature and Science.  ”All the judges for this year’s BSLS book prize agreed wholeheartedly that Leah Knight’s Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England was a very worthy winner. Knight’s book is a fascinating contribution to the study of literature and science in the early modern period. Elegantly written and meticulous in its scholarship, it opens up the field of botany in the sixteenth century for literary analysis and cultural history, drawing out too how central early modern thinking about plants was to print culture as a whole.”

“As well as being an excellent contribution to the field in its own right, Of Books and Botany is one of an important new series of books on Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity published by Ashgate. Ashgate has been leading the field in publishing books on literature and science, and it is extremely encouraging to see research into literature and science in the early modern period getting the same serious consideration and support as work in this same field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” —John Robert Holmes, Chair of the judges for the BSLS Book Prize for 2009.

During 2011-12, I will be co-leading, with Meredith McGill, an interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student seminar at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers on “Public Knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives.” The CCA will sponsor two external fellowships with awards of $45,000; the CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center’s resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year. Applications can be downloaded at the Center for Cultural Analysis website and must be postmarked by January 8.