Frederick Turner

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

“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

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]

Myth and Politics

2008–2008 Keynote 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)

2008–2008 Symposium presentation, Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, Lotos Club, New York, NY (May 30, 2008)

John Steinbeck's East of Eden

2008–2008 Colloquium presentation, Liberty Fund Santa Cruz, CA (May 15-17, 2008)

Chaos, Complexity and Self-Organization

2008–2008 Keynote Lecture, European Group for Organization Studies Pissouri, Cyprus (June 5, 2008)

Aesthetics and Civic History

2008–2008 Colloquium presentation, Richardson City Council Committee on Park Planning, Richardson, TX (Mar 6, 2008)

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, Ohio Arts Council
• Panelist, Ingersoll Literary Prize Selection 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
• Fall 2009 HUAS-6350-1CREATING POETRY
• Fall 2009 LIT -3300-501WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION

MA Portfolios Supervised

• Donna Paireepinart, 1995
• Donna Sherritt, 1995
• Linda Suddarth, 1995
• Patrick Godfrey, 1996
• John Williams, 1997
• Caroline Perkins, 1997
• Mary Blanchard (MA), 1998
• Karen Isbell (MA), 1998
• Christopher Baker, 2000
• Sharon Bailey, 2000
• Heather Tibshraeny, 2001
• Dawn Moncrief, 2002

Professor and Student Cross the Balkans for Poetry

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.

Literature Profs Offer Book Lists to Beat the Heat

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.

TD Professor Dr. Frederick Turner to Bring The Prayers of Dallas to Campus on Nov. 2

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.”