Catherine Turner

Office Hours

Tuesdays 10:00 to 12:00 and by appointment 220A Sansom East

Catherine Turner is the author of Marketing Modernism between the Two World Wars (University of Massachusetts Press: 2003) and is currently completing a book tentatively titled Reading in the Welfare State. In addition, she is co-editor with Greg Barnhisel of Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda and the Cold War (University of Massachussetts Press, 2010). Her research interests include the history of publishing and reading as well as also cultural attitudes toward literature. Currently she serves as Senior Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Penn.

News & Events

2019/03/27

Whitman at 200 Symposium featured in Penn Today

Courses Taught

spring 2025

ENGL 2082.401 American Literature in the Cold War

spring 2024

ENGL 2052.301 19th Century American Literary Radicals

spring 2023

ENGL 2082.401 Hard Times and the American Dream: The Literature of the Great Depression

spring 2022

ENGL 263.401 The Bomb and the Word: Crisis, Containment and Chaos in US Cold War Literature

spring 2019

ENGL 212.401 Walt Whitman and the People's Press

spring 2018

ENGL 253.301 American Literary Radicals of the 19th Century

spring 2017

ENGL 263.301 Literature of the Great Depression

summer 2016

ENGL 105.910 Conflict in Print: Civil Rights and Labor Reform in American Literature and Culture

spring 2016

ENGL 253.301 19th-Century American Literary Radicals

summer 2015

ENGL 105.920 Conflict in Print: Civil Rights & Labor Reform in American Lit and Culture

fall 2014

ENGL 064.001 Modern America

summer 2014

ENGL 105.910 Conflict in Print: Civil Rights and Labor Reform in American Literature and Culture

spring 2014

ENGL 263.301 American Literature of Dissent canceled

fall 2010

ENGL 263.301 Art in a Time of Crisis: the Literature of Great Depression

fall 2009

ENGL 286.302 American Literature of Dissent

spring 2008