Timothy A. Turner

I was born and raised in central Texas, attended high school in a small town called Whitney, and college at an even smaller liberal arts university in east Texas. Upon completion of my Bachelor of Arts in English degree with honors in May of 2003, I began graduate study in English at the University of Texas at Austin the following August. I was awarded my Master of Arts degree in May, 2005, for my thesis "On Division and Doubleness in Othello," completed under the direction of Professors Frank Whigham and Douglas Bruster.

Having recently passed my prospectus exam, I am now at work on my dissertation, Dangerous Language: Religion and Violence in English Renaissance Literature and Culture, which I hope to complete by May of 2009. My academic interests range widely, and include Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, religious studies, Reformation history, violence in literature, Chaucer, Middle English literature, philosophy and literary theory, rhetoric and poetics, language and literature, technology and pedagogy, and gender and sexuality in literary study.