Associate Professor of Frenchgt2@u.washington.edu(206) 685-1618PDL C-255Office Hours: On leave spring 2013Fields of Interest 17th Century 18th Century French Literature and Culture Media Studies Book History/Print Culture in Early Modern EuropeBackground and ExperienceSummaryPh.D., Columbia University, 2001Prof. Turnovsky specializes in the cultural history of early modern France and Europe, focusing on print culture, early modern media, authorship, and readership in the 17th and 18th centuries. His book, The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime, appeared in 2010. His articles -- on writers (Corneille, Diderot, Rousseau, "marginal" writers) and publishing; and on readers -- have appeared in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC); Studies in Eighteenth‑Century Culture; Revue de synthèse; and Modern Language Quarterly. Turnovsky's current research (representative sample here) examines the evolution of reading in early modern France and Europe in light of the expansion, beginning in the 17th century, of a commercial public for printed texts, driven in part by the marketing of reading as a preeminently non‑commercial, spiritually beneficial, individualizing and self-affirming activity. Research Selected Publications: "Authorial Modesty and its Readers: Mondanité and Modernity in 17th-Century France." Modern Language Quarterly 72, 4. 2011. 461-492. The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. "The making of a name: a life of Voltaire." The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, ed. Nicholas Cronk. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 17-30. "The Enlightenment Literary Market: Rousseau, Authorship, and the Book Trade." Eighteenth‑Century Studies 36:3 (Spring 2003): 387-410. Dissertations Advised: Jessica N. Kamin. Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: paratexts and polemical texts in seventeenth century French theater. (2012). Courses Taught Autumn 2013 FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A FRENCH 414: French Literature Of The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment A FRENCH 594: Literary Problems: Eighteenth Century A Winter 2013 FRENCH 490: Honors Seminar B FRENCH 590: Special Seminar And Conference B Autumn 2012 FRENCH 224: Culture And Media Forms A FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A Winter 2012 FRENCH 224: Culture And Media Forms A FRENCH 590: Special Seminar And Conference B Literary Problems – 18th Century Autumn 2011 FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A FRENCH 414: French Literature Of The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment A FRENCH 594: Literary Problems: Eighteenth Century A Autumn 2010 FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A FRENCH 593: Literary Problems: Seventeenth Century A Winter 2010 FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A FRENCH 590: Special Seminar And Conference B Autumn 2009 FRENCH 211: Renaissance, Enlightenment, Revolution: Major Works In English A FRENCH 420: Interdisciplinary Approaches To Literature A (Course Website) Winter 2009 FRENCH 414: French Literature Of The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment A (Course Website) Autumn 2008 FRENCH 376: Culture, Politics, And Society In France From The Religious Wars To Revolutions A FRENCH 593: Literary Problems: Seventeenth Century A Winter 2008 FRENCH 590: Special Seminar And Conference B Autumn 2007 FRENCH 211: Renaissance, Enlightenment, Revolution: Major Works In English A FRENCH 390: Supervised Study B FRENCH 461: Seventeenth-Century Drama A FRENCH 561: Studies In Seventeenth-Century Drama A Spring 2007 FRENCH 207: Second-Year Reading A FRENCH 211: Renaissance, Enlightenment, Revolution: Major Works In English A (Course Website) Autumn 2006 FRENCH 413: Topics In Seventeenth Century Literature A (Course Website) FRENCH 499: Special Topics B (Course Website) FRENCH 590: Special Seminar And Conference C (Course Website) AffiliationsHome Department: French & Italian Studies Share Printer-friendly version PDF version