Dr Lynnette Turner

I joined Christ Church in April 2019, after almost 10 years at Edge Hill University where I served as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Education and prior to this as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

My previous roles include Assistant Undergraduate Dean and Director of the Combined Honours Centre at Newcastle University and before this Head of the Department of English (and Principal Lecturer in Romantic Literature) at Oxford Brookes University.

My research interests are in historical anthropology, and ethnographic and postcolonial methodologies. I’m currently working on a cultural history of peeping. Stretching from the 16^th-century origins of bo-peep (a game of hiding and suddenly reappearing played with children) to peek-a-boo (another game played with children that involves hiding behind something and suddenly reappearing), peeping (unlike the ‘looking quickly’ connotations of peeking) continues the activity of hiding but increasingly involves looking at someone through a narrow opening (as in peephole and peeping Tom). My work follows the cultural history of this, from the 18^th century novel (Samuel Richardson’s two novels Pamela and Clarissa) to recent issues around up-skirting.

In my role here I am responsible for the achievement of the Strategic Framework’s objectives within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education.

What inspires you about CCCU?

Our core values and our genuinely inclusive approach to all aspects of what we do and how we work.