Katherine Turner

Katherine Turner is Associate Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She has published articles on travel writing and a book, British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800: Authorship, Gender and National Identity. She has recently edited Sterne's A Sentimental Journey for Broadview Press and several volumes of Women's Court and Society Memoirs for Pickering and Chatto. An essay entitled "'A scale of hideousness': snakes and other reptiles in the new worlds of the long eighteenth century" is forthcoming in Travel, Discovery and Transformation ed. Gabriel Ricci (Transaction/Rutgers, forthcoming 2014).