Sarah E. Turner

Senior Lecturer

Sarah.E.Turner@uvm.edu
Sarah.E.Turner@uvm.edu

306 Old Mill
94 University Pl
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, 1995

Courses

  • Epistemology of the Book Club
  • American Literature
  • African-American Women Writers 20th & 21st Century
  • Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature
  • Race and Television
  • Race and Popular Culture
  • Woolf, Faulkner, and Morrison
  • Canon of Toni Morrison
  • Race, Literature, and the Danger of Story (HCOL)
  • The Danger of the Single Story (TAP)
  • Writers, Writing and Toni Morrison (TAP)
  • Intro to Literary Theory
  • Written Expression

Publications

Sarah E. Turner Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

  • 2018 Faculty Fellow for Service Learning, University of Vermont
  • 2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Vermont
  • 2012 Lattie F. Coor Research Assistantship Grant, University of Vermont
  • 2011 Lattie F. Coor Research Assistantship Grant, University of Vermont
  • 2001 University of Vermont Center for Teaching and Learning "Instructional Learning Grant" to produce the second edition of the common teaching text Work in Progress for Introductory Writing Classes
  • 2001 Department of English, University of Vermont, James and Mary Buckham Grant
  • 2000 University of Vermont Center for Teaching and Learning "Instructional Learning Grant" to facilitate the development of a common teaching text Work in Progress for Introductory Writing Classes
  • 1994 Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award for Teaching at the Undergraduate Level
  • 1992 Neil Macintyre Prize for Outstanding Graduate Essay: "Manifestations of (An)other Sex: Woolf's Androgynous Vision in Orlando and The Waves"

Area(s) of expertise

Race and ethnicity in contemporary American literature, colorblind racism and post-racial ideology, popular culture, 20th/21st century Black Women writers, modernism, composition

Courses

  • Epistemology of the Book Club
  • American Literature
  • African-American Women Writers 20th & 21st Century
  • Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature
  • Race and Television
  • Race and Popular Culture
  • Woolf, Faulkner, and Morrison
  • Canon of Toni Morrison
  • Race, Literature, and the Danger of Story (HCOL)
  • The Danger of the Single Story (TAP)
  • Writers, Writing and Toni Morrison (TAP)
  • Intro to Literary Theory
  • Written Expression

Publications

Sarah E. Turner Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

  • 2018 Faculty Fellow for Service Learning, University of Vermont
  • 2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Vermont
  • 2012 Lattie F. Coor Research Assistantship Grant, University of Vermont
  • 2011 Lattie F. Coor Research Assistantship Grant, University of Vermont
  • 2001 University of Vermont Center for Teaching and Learning "Instructional Learning Grant" to produce the second edition of the common teaching text Work in Progress for Introductory Writing Classes
  • 2001 Department of English, University of Vermont, James and Mary Buckham Grant
  • 2000 University of Vermont Center for Teaching and Learning "Instructional Learning Grant" to facilitate the development of a common teaching text Work in Progress for Introductory Writing Classes
  • 1994 Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award for Teaching at the Undergraduate Level
  • 1992 Neil Macintyre Prize for Outstanding Graduate Essay: "Manifestations of (An)other Sex: Woolf's Androgynous Vision in Orlando and The Waves"

Areas of Expertise

Race and ethnicity in contemporary American literature, colorblind racism and post-racial ideology, popular culture, 20th/21st century Black Women writers, modernism, composition