Christopher Turner

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]

For other people named Christopher Turner, see Christopher Turner (disambiguation).
Christopher Turner
NationalityBritish
EducationMA, anthropology, archaeology and art history, University of Cambridge
PhD (2000), humanities and cultural studies, London Consortium
OccupationWriter

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

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
  • 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
  1. "Christopher Turner", Cabinet magazine.
  2. "Christopher Turner", also see here, London Review of Books.
  3. "Christopher Turner", The Guardian.
  4. "Icon magazine". Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. "Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced", Orwell Prize, 29 March 2012.
  6. Bishop, Jordan. "Christopher Hitchens longlisted for the Orwell prize", The Guardian, 29 March 2012.
  7. "Turner, Christopher" Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, AP Watt.
  8. "PhD Titles" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Masters & Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium.

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