Person
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
My PhD thesis on conceptions of sovereignty and domesticity in interwar women’s writing explored the relationships between popular low- or middlebrow fiction and modernist fiction. I have published work on the popular romance writer E.M. Hull. My research on this project also takes me into the territory of travel writing. Additional research interests include ecofeminism and modernism as well as the representation of women’s physical education in interwar literature. In 2010 I was awarded a Dissertation Research Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas for work on the archives of Marie Belloc Lowndes. I have also conducted AHRC funded research in Tasmania and was visiting researcher at ANU in Canberra in the summer of 2009.
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 (8)
- Håkansson, S., Turner, E. & Wadsö-Lecaros, C. (submitted). Learning how to do literature : Reflecting on writing feedback on an introductory-level literature course. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Turner, E. (accepted/in press). Anti-Fox Hunting, Female Novelists, and the First World War: Mary Webb's Gone to Earth (1917), Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928), and Winifred Holtby’s South Riding (1936). The Space Between.
- 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. (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.
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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