Christopher Turner (writer)
Christopher Turner | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Education | MA, anthropology, archaeology and art history, University of Cambridge PhD (2000), humanities and cultural studies, London Consortium |
| Occupation | Writer |
Christopher Turner is a British writer. He has been a regular contributor to Cabinet magazine since 2004, and to the London Review of Books since 2001.[1][2] He has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph, and is the editor of Icon magazine.[3][4]
Turner is the author of Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex (2011), which was long-listed for the Orwell Prize.[5][6]
Background
[edit]Turner obtained an MA in anthropology, archaeology and art history from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in 2000 in humanities and cultural studies from the London Consortium, with a thesis entitled "The Disgusting: The Unrepresentable from Kant to Kristeva." He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2003–2004.[7][8]
Works
[edit]- Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex. Fourth Estate (UK), 2011. Published in the US as Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
References
[edit]- ^ "Christopher Turner", Cabinet magazine.
- ^ "Christopher Turner", also see here, London Review of Books.
- ^ "Christopher Turner", The Guardian.
- ^ "Icon magazine". Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced", Orwell Prize, 29 March 2012.
- ^ Bishop, Jordan. "Christopher Hitchens longlisted for the Orwell prize", The Guardian, 29 March 2012.
- ^ "Turner, Christopher" Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, AP Watt.
- ^ "PhD Titles" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Masters & Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium.
Further reading
[edit]- Hitchens, Christopher. "Inside the Orgone Box", The New York Times, 23 September 2011.
- Philips, Adam. "Am I a spaceman?", London Review of Books, 20 October 2011.
- Turner, Christopher. "Diary", London Review of Books, 3 June 2004.
- Turner, Christopher. "Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love", The Guardian, 8 July 2011.
- Turner, Christopher. "Adventures in the Orgasmatron", The New York Times, 23 September 2011.
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