Marion Turner

Marion Turner (born 1976) is the J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford and an academic authority on Geoffrey Chaucer. She has authored several books, including Chaucer: A European Life, which was shortlisted in 2020 for the Wolfson History Prize, and was a finalist in the PROSE Awards, and for which she was awarded the 2020 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Education Turner received her MA and DPhil from Oxford University and her MA from the University of York. Career Turner has been a research fellow of the Leverhulme Trust, the Wellcome Trust, and the British Academy. After teaching at King's College London, she began her Tutorial Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford in 2007. In 2007, she published the book Chaucerian Conflict, and in 2013, edited A Handbook of Middle English Studies. Chaucer: A European Life was published in 2019. Alison Flood writes in The Guardian, "Turner’s book is the first full biography of Chaucer for a generation, and the first written by a woman." She was elected the J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford in 2022. Critical reception