Henry S. Turner (Department of English) received his PhD from Columbia University and comes to Rutgers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in the drama of Jonson, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries, in the history of literary criticism, the history of economic thought, and the history of science. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts (Oxford, 2006) and of Shakespeare’s Double Helix (Continuum, 2008). He is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002) and is currently writing a book on the history of the “corporation” as a political entity in early modern England and beyond.

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Email: henry.turner@rutgers.edu