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Professional Preparation
B.A. - English Literature and Literature Oxford University - 2018
Ph.D. - B.Litt (equivalent to Ph.D.) English Language and Literature, Oxford University - 1967
M.S. - English Language and Literature Oxford University - 1967
Research Areas
Scholarly Fields of Interest
Poetry, the biological foundations of aesthetics, Shakespeare, ecopoetics, chaos theory and literary criticism, English Renaissance literature, Chaucer, Milton, prosody, performance theory, the philosophy of time, anthropology and literature, literature and science, science fiction, narrative poetry, artificial intelligence, restoration ecology, literary and critical theory, sociobiology and the arts, oral tradition studies, landscape and garden architecture, the structure of knowledge, political philosophy, evolutionary theology, the history and philosophy of science and technology, translation theory, media studies, Renaissance art history
Publications
“A Flowering Tree: Selected Poems”, The New Formalist Press, 2008. (PDF) http://newformalistpress.com/turner.pdf 2008 - Publication
Frederick Hart: The Complete Works: Essays by Donald Kuspit and Frederick Turner. Butler Books, Louisville, 2007 2007 - Publication
The Prayers of Dallas (poetry). Turning Point Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2006 2006 - Publication
N? Shpell?n e Platonit (In Plato's Cave, full-length collection of poems by Frederick Turner translated into Albanian by Gjek? Marinaj). Marinaj Publishing, Dallas, Frankfurt, Tirana, 2006 2006 - Publication
Natural Religion. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, and London, 2006 2006 - Publication
On the Field of Life, On the Battlefield of Truth. Pivot Press, New York, 2004 2004 - Publication
Paradise: Selected Poems, 1990-2003. David Robert Books, Cincinnati, 2004 2004 - Publication
Hadean Eclogues (poetry). Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 1999 1999 - Publication
Appointments
Founders Professor University of Texas at Dallas. [1985–Present]
Visiting Professor Visiting Professor, University of Exeter, England [1984–1985]
Editor Kenyon Review [1978–1983]
Associate Professor of English Kenyon College [1972–1985]
Assistant Professor of English University of California at Santa Barbara [1967–1972]
Projects
Myth and Politics
2008–2008Keynote Lecture, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture/ Pacifica Institute, Santa Barbara, CA (May 3, 2008)
Modernism(with Donald Kuspit, Stefania de Kennessey, James Cooper and Jacob Collins)
2008–2008Symposium presentation, Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, Lotos Club, New York, NY (May 30, 2008)
John Steinbeck's East of Eden
2008–2008Colloquium presentation, Liberty Fund Santa Cruz, CA (May 15-17, 2008)
Chaos, Complexity and Self-Organization
2008–2008Keynote Lecture, European Group for Organization Studies Pissouri, Cyprus (June 5, 2008)
Aesthetics and Civic History
2008–2008Colloquium presentation, Richardson City Council Committee on Park Planning, Richardson, TX (Mar 6, 2008)
Additional Information
Other Activities
Director, Poetry Festival, University of California at Santa Barbara
Member, special task force to recruit women faculty, Kenyon College
Member, special task force to create and institute the Integrated Program in Humane Studies, Kenyon College
Member, Kenyon Review revival and feasibility study committee.
Panelist, Publication Subvention Panel, The National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellow, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
Member, Kerngruppe, Werner Reimers Stiftung research group on the biological foundations of esthetics
Consultant to Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Review feasibility study
Consultant, the Niedersachsen Foundation: international conference on Geist und Natur (Mind and Nature) in Hannover, Germany
Consultant, NASA Ames Space Center, long-range policy planning
Trustee, Cleveland Poetry Project (nationally syndicated radio poetry programming)
Trustee, Greenhill School
Trustee, Isthmus Institute
Editorial reader, SUNY Press
Editorial reader, University of Pennsylvania Press
Editorial reader, University Press of Virginia
Editorial reader, Missouri University Press
Editorial reader, MIT Press
Editorial reader, Behavior and Brain Science
Editorial reader, Mosaic
Editorial reader, The Study of Time
Editorial adviser, Hellas
Editorial adviser, Poems and Poetics
Editorial adviser, The Journal of Social and Biological Structures
Editorial adviser, The American Arts Quarterly
Advisory board, St. Louis Museum of Art, Exhibit on Material Culture of the Future
Advisory board, Djerassi Foundation
Advisory board, Quest Foundation
Advisory board, Berlin Peace University, Potsdam, Germany
Advisory board, Newington-Cropsey Foundation
Founding advisory board, the Earthkeeping Institute
Chair, Steering Committee, Center for the Study of Science and the Arts
Member, Japan Karate Association: second-degree black belt, Shotokan style
Faculty adviser and senior instructor, JKA Dallas Karate Club.
Created (with Drs. Koen dePryck and Fernando Mora, and Rector Luis Bojalil) a new Millennium Institute of Integrative Studies in Mexico City. The program will be tied in with existing graduate programs at the Diplomado, M.A. and Ph.D. levels.
Chaired and organized Conference Committee on the Biological Foundations of Aesthetics for the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, held in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 21st-26th, 1995.
Member, American Book Award Committee (projected international literary prize)
Advisor, Young Presidents Organization university program planning
Advisor, Society for Ecological Restoration and Management
Helped plan Undermain Theater's international production of Sarajevo
Served as mentor to Plano East High School mentor program, from Sep 1996
Led (with Rene Moreno) day-long seminar for all-Dallas high school students on Shakespearean performance, sponsored by the English-speaking Union, Nov 16th, 1996
Contributing Editor, Reason magazine
Conference organizer: International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences 1997
Honorary Chair of Biology and Aesthetics section
Sanus Salute: officiated at SANUS SALUTE senior citizens annual award ceremony, literature prize, Dallas, Feb 24th 1996
Literary Consultant to "Wishbone," children's Public Television literary series, from May 1996
Literary adviser and dramaturg for "Wishbone," the PBS children's TV literary drama series, 1997
Compered TV Critics Award PBS Press Tour, "Wishbone," Pasadena, California, Jul 26th, 1997
Member, Dallas Poetry Board
Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Foundation for Global Studies
Advisory Board, International School of Theory in the Humanities
Contributing Writer, American Enterprise
Literary Advisor, Tillerman's Codex DVD Experimental Storytelling Project, UTD, 1999
Curator, Derriere Guard Arts Festival
Advisory Board, Newington-Cropsey Foundation
Consultant, "Mystical Cafe" Rick Duffield Film Arts TV miniseries project
Passed advanced Karate judge examination, judged National Karate Championships 2001
International Society for the Study of Time, Council Member
Editorial Board, American Arts Quarterly
Contributing Editor, American Arts Quarterly
Classroom Teaching (since 2000)
Spring 00 A&H 1301 EXPLORATIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
Spring 00 HUAS 6395 POETRY
Fall 00 HUSL 6370 IDEAS OF THE DIVINE
Spring 01 HUAS 6340 SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE
Spring 01 LIT 3312 LITERATURE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS
Fall 01 HUAS 6350 CREATING POETRY
Spring 02 LIT 3320 SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE
Spring 02 HUSL 6370-001 BEAUTY
Fall 02 HUAS 6350-001 READING AND WRITING POETRY
Spring 03 LIT 3320 501 SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE
Spring 03 HUSL 6355 001 GAME THEORY IN THE HUMANITIES
Fall 03 SPECIAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT, FALL 2003-SPRING 2004
Fall 04 HUAS 6350.001 CREATING POETRY
Spring 05 LIT 3319 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Spring 05 HUSL 6355 GAMES THEORY IN THE HUMANITIES
Fall 05 HUSL 6312 SHAKESPEARE
Fall 05 HUSL EPIC POETRY
Spring 2006 HUAS 8305-038 AESTHETICS
Fall 2006 HUAS 6350-001 POETRY
Fall 2006 HUM 1302-006 TIME (HONORS)
Spring 2007 HUSL-6340-002 MILTON & THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Fall 2007 HUMA-3300-502 READING AND WRITING TEXTS
Fall 2007 HUSL-6304-001 THE LITERATURE OF TIME
Fall 2008 HUSL-6304-001 LITERATURE AND GAMES
Fall 2008 HUSL-6340-001 SHAKESPEARE: DRAMATIST AND POET
Fall 2008 LIT -3300-501 WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION
Fall 2009 HUSL-6355-1 LITERATURE, SCIENCE & CULTURE
In 1990, Gjekë Marinaj was fleeing through the mountains from his home country of Albania into the former Yugoslavia. He was being pursued by Albanian secret police with tracker dogs. Marinaj’s crime: writing a poem.With Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities Dr. Frederick Turner, Marinaj has recently published Sung Across the Shoulder: Heroic Poetry of Illyria, a collection of Albanian oral folk-poetry. Turning the poetry from spoken performance into print was no easy task. Since none of the poems had ever been written down, Marinaj traveled to inns and coffee-houses deep in the Albanian mountains to record the poets reciting their verse. Marinaj also photographed the speakers and the venues of their performances. Back at UT Dallas, Turner and Marinaj began their collaborative work by listening to the recordings together and considering the photographs to determine whether or not a poem was fit for the book. The poem, if chosen, would then be translated, retaining its original tone, mood, style, diction, metrical form and rhyme.
Triple-digit temperatures have discouraged poolside reading and sent many North Texans indoors.UT Dallas literature experts have summertime book recommendations that promise distraction from the sweltering heat. “What's needed for good summer reading is complicated plots, suspense and humor,” said Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities Dr. Frederick Turner. “The ideal summer reading is Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic naval novel series about Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin,” Turner says. “The passages about the freezing gales of the South Forties are particularly welcome in this weather.” O’Brian’s novels may be familiar to those who saw the 2003 film adaptation Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe.
RICHARDSON, Texas (Oct. 14, 2005) — Renowned University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities Dr. Frederick Turner will bring his popular play The Prayers of Dallas to the Jonsson Performance Hall on campus on Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Performed as a solo piece by Turner, the play will be free and open to the public.
Turner describes The Prayers of Dallas as “a portrait of the city, composed as a mosaic of 50 different voices, each a resident of Dallas, each in his or her most private moment, speaking to whatever is their own ultimate Listener. It is a celebration both of the diversity of the city and of a fundamental moral unity which is often unremarked.”