Henry Turner, PhD

Henry S. Turner is a Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rutgers. He specializes in Renaissance literature and intellectual history and is the author or editor of five books, most recently The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651 (Chicago, 2016), winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award for the best book in English Renaissance Studies and recipient of Honorable Mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History from the American Society for Theatre Research.

He is currently co-writing a book with Jane Hwang Degenhardt (U-Mass, Amherst) entitled The Shakespearean Horizon: Worlds Upon Worlds in The Renaissance and Today. His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and by a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.