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Senior Lecturer
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail ellen.turnerenglund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 75 51
Room SOL:H319
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (2)
- Manninen, S., Turner, E. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (2020). Writing in English at University : A Guide for Second Language Writers. Lund Studies in English, 120. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Turner, E. (2011). Law, the Domestic and Sovereignty in Interwar Women's Writing. Dissertation.
Articles (13)
- Turner, E. (2023). Dialogic feedback and literary disciplinary knowledge in L2 writing instruction : How attitude to feedback influences academic achievement. Research Papers in Education, 38, 21-44. Taylor & Francis.
- Turner, E. (2023). The 5K run in popular fiction : Reading about parkrun and couch to 5K. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5, 1-11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Turner, E. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (2022). The desert-governess romance : Regency England meets exotic Arabia. Lund Journal of English Studies, 4, 1-24.
- Håkansson, S., Turner, E. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (2021). Active and Transformational Engagement with Writing Feedback : Using Reflection as a Tool to Access Literary Disciplinary Knowledge. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 20, 183-206. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Turner, E. (2020). An investigation into students’ attitudes towards the value of poetry and their knowledge of poetry analysis. Lund Journal of English Studies, 1, 58-91.
- Turner, E. (2020). The Sheik and Modernism. Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 9.
- Turner, E. (2019). “The Whole Island is a Jail and We the Warders” : States of Exception in Tasmanian Historical Fiction. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 42.
- Turner, E. (2019). Anti-Fox Hunting, Women Novelists, and the First World War. The Space Between, 15.
- Turner, E. (2018). Margarine, Mystery and Modernity : Margarine and Class in Literary Texts (1880-1945). Food, Culture and Society, 21, 521-538. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Turner, E. (2015). E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara : desert romance meets desert reality. Studies in Travel Writing, 19. Routledge.
- Turner, E. (2013). Exercise is Murder: Physical Culture in Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes and Gladys Mitchell’s Laurels are Poison. European Studies in Sports History, 6.
- Turner, E. (2012). Paper-thin walls: Law and the domestic in Marie Belloc Lowndes’ popular gothic. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 11, 55-77. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Turner, E. (2011). E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik. Journal of Gender Studies, 20, 171-182. Taylor & Francis.
Book chapters (1)
Encyclopaedia entries (3)
- Turner, E. (2016). Governmentality. In Ray, S. & Schwarz, H. (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 1. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Turner, E. (2016). Lessing, Doris. In Ray, S. & Schwarz, H. (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 2. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Turner, E. (2016). Millin, Sarah Gertrude (1888–1968). Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge.
Conference contributions (9)
- Manninen, S., Turner, E. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (2018). Writing in English at University : The Educational Benefits of Investing in a MOOC. In Larsson, M. & Bergqvist Rydén, J. (Eds.) Utvecklingskonferens 17 (pp. 106-113). Centre for Educational Development, Lunds universitet.
- Turner, E. (2018). Meat, masculinity and power: Carnivory as metaphor in House of Cards.
- Turner, E. (2017). Stepping through the Narnia wardrobe : Exploring meta-reflection of threshold concepts on a theory-oriented literature course.
- Turner, E., Manninen, S. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (2017). Writing in English at University : The educational benefits of investing in a MOOC.
- Turner, E. (2013). Women, Witches and their Familiars: Exploring the Concept of Rural Modernism in Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Webb.
- Turner, E. (2012). Camping in the Sahara: Desert Romance Meets Desert Reality.
- Turner, E. (2010). A Romance of Old Tasmania: Isabel Dick’s Wild Orchard.
- Turner, E. (2008). Rebecca West’s Harriet Hume: Psychoanalysis and the Discourse of Sovereignty.
- Turner, E. (2008). Virginia Woolf: Resisting the Sovereignty Trap.
Reviews (5)
- Turner, E. (2019). Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes: A Monstrous Regiment of Women ed. by Elyssa Warkentin (review). Victorian Periodicals Review, 52, 425-428. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Turner, E. (2018). Book Review: Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire. The International Journal of the History of Sport. Taylor & Francis.
- Turner, E. (2018). Jarmakani, Amira. An imperialist love story: Desert romances and the war on terror. Feminist Theory, 19, 118-119. SAGE Publications.
- Turner, E. (2013). MAROULA JOANNOU. Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962. Review of English Studies, 64, 915-917. Oxford University Press.
- Turner, E. (2009). Book Review: Clare Chambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice. Feminist Theory, 10, 265-266. SAGE Publications.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (5)
- Turner, E. (2019). Killing Eve, sausages and the sexual politics of meat. The Conversation.
- Turner, E. (2019). The Sheik: 100 years on, the desert romance still flutters hearts not stirred by #MeToo. The Conversation.
- Turner, E. (2017). Before you vote, read Mary Webb’s 1917 novel on the barbarism of fox hunting. The Conversation.
- Turner, E. (2017). Margarine vs butter : how what we spread on our toast became a weapon of class war. The Conversation.
- Turner, E. & Berglund, B. (2017). Eating meat implies power in House of Cards – and the real White House. The Conversation.
Miscellaneous (2)
Teaching

Senior Lecturer
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail ellen.turnerenglund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 75 51
Room SOL:H319
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20