Simon Turner
- M.A. (Carleton University), B.A. (Trent University)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
kinship; empathy; ethics; poststructuralism; queer studies; Black diaspora; transgender; disability; identity politics; modernism; horror
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Simon’s dissertation interrogates the ethics of empathy within and between narratives of nonnormative kinship. Breaking down traditional disciplinary silos, Simon’s research brings a variety of novels and films into conversation with one another to see how ostensibly disparate texts address similar themes of subjectivity, identity, community, belonging, and hope for the future.
PUBLICATIONS:
– Turner, Simon. “‘What It Means to be a Woman’: Trans Legitimacy in The Silence of the Lambs.” The Gay Return: Queer Representation Revisits, Challenges, and New Directions, edited by Sarah Baker and Amanda Rutherford, forthcoming.
– Turner, Simon. “Friendship’s Inheritance: Posthumous Legacies and Relational Possibilities in Forster’s The Longest Journey and Howards End.” Polish Journal of English Studies, special issue on E. M. Forster, vol. 10, no. 2, 2024, pp. 40– 56.
– Turner, Simon and Stuart J. Murray. “Becoming Host: Zooming in on the Pandemic Horror Film.” Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic, edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang, Routledge, 2022, pp. 145–154.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
– “Friendship’s Inheritance: Creating and Curating Posthumous Legacies.” International E. M. Forster Society Conference: A Passage to India—Centenary Revaluations, June 2024, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
– “Reiterative Revision, Ethical Violence: Candyman 2021 as Black Lives Matter Folk Tale.” Canadian Association for American Studies Conference: West by Northeast, Sept. 2023, Mount Saint Vincent University.
– “Celebrating the Ecstasy of Death in ‘Dr Woolacott.’” Re-Orientating E. M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions, April 2020, University of Cambridge. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
– “Speech in Action: (Mis)communication and Achieving Desire in E. M. Forster’s Maurice.” Department of English MA Colloquium, July 2019, Carleton University.
– “Ecstatic Death as Biopolitical Resistance in E. M. Forster’s ‘Dr Woolacott.’” Endnotes: Disruption, Resistance, Resilience, May 2019, University of British Columbia.
– “‘In My Heart Do I Play a Double Part’: Troubling Identity and the Concept of Home in Countee Cullen’s ‘Heritage.’” English Graduate Student Society Conference: [Per]forming the Present, April 2019, Carleton University.
– “Icarus and Différance: Derrida’s Theories in W. H. Auden and Rob Winger.” Québec Universities English Undergraduate Conference, March 2016, Bishop’s University.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
– for Dr. Jan Schroeder, Winter/Summer 2021: Assistance in the formation and implementation of an EDI working group within the Department of English Language and Literature; Help with preparation for the Cyclical Program Review; Research toward the creation of a new literary magazine to be organized by the department.
– for Dr. Dana Dragunoiu, Fall 2020: Editorial assistance, proofreading, and preparation of a monograph for publication.
– for Dr. Jan Schroeder, Summer 2019: Assistance with creation of an interdisciplinary fourth-year course on adoption narratives.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
– ENGL 1609A: Introduction to Drama Studies. Carleton University, Fall 2023.
SERVICE:
– Peer reviewer for Scaffold: Journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture (2024)
– Member of the Department of English EDI working group, Carleton University (2021)
– Committee Chair, Department of English MA Colloquium, Department of English, Carleton University (2019)
– Panel Chair, Interface: “(Un)bound: Interdisciplinary Dialogues,” Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University (2019)
– Committee Member and Panel Chair, English Graduate Student Society Conference: “[Per]forming the Present,” Department of English, Carleton University (2018–2019)
AWARDS:
– SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, (2021–present)
– Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020–2021)
– Gordon J. Wood Graduate Scholarship in English, Carleton University (2018–2019)
– George Johnston Poetry Award (First Prize), Department of English, Carleton University (2024 & 2019)
– Barbara Rooke Travel Prize, Department of English, Trent University (2017)
– Sylvia Cherney Scholarship, Department of English, Trent University (2014–2015)